What’s more, many researchers — especially those in the phenomenological tradition — have long emphasized that conscious experience itself is richly dynamic and inherently temporal. It does not stutter from one state to another; it flows.

Intelligence is mainly about doing : solving a crossword puzzle, assembling some furniture, navigating a tricky family situation, walking to the shop — all involve intelligent behavior of some kind. A useful general definition of intelligence is the ability to achieve complex goals by flexible means. There are many other definitions out there, but... See more

Exponential growth has the psychologically destabilizing property that what’s ahead seems impossibly steep, and what’s behind seems irrelevantly flat. Crucially, things seem this way wherever you are on the curve

Consciousness, in contrast to intelligence, is mostly about being .

with consciousness comes moral status, the potential for suffering and, perhaps, rights

When we identify conscious experience with seemingly human qualities like intelligence and language, we become more likely to see consciousness where it doesn’t exist

If we confuse ourselves too readily with our machine creations, we not only overestimate them, we also underestimate ourselves.

Exponential growth has the psychologically destabilizing property that what’s ahead seems impossibly steep, and what’s behind seems irrelevantly flat. Crucially, things seem this way wherever you are on the curve

The very idea of conscious AI rests on the assumption that consciousness is a matter of computation.