The Mind, Mathematics and Computing Consciousness
Roger Penrose’s The Emperor’s New Mind.
Fei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
Kurzweil seems to believe that consciousness can be put to the side. His book How to Create a Mind is the most systematic exposition of AI and, like his masterpiece, The Singularity Is Near, full of original insights. But on the issue of consciousness both books plunge into circularity, merely asserting that when a machine is fully intelligent it
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“Small world” vs “Large world”
This idea is related to the thoughts in Reality is analog (https://www.metapsychosis.com/reality-is-analog-philosophizing-with-stranger-things-part-two/), where JF Martel argues that we mostly live in a conceptual overlay.
Organisms and algorithms live in two fundamentally different worlds.
Algorithms inhabit a “small
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