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Why Computers Can’t Be Conscious
- And if consciousness is an illusion, who or what is having the illusion?
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- The spectacular advances in generative AI led to an explosion of interest in connectionism and its latest incarnation, deep learning. The question of how AI’s emergent properties are related to symbolic computation or how symbolic regularities “emerge” from complex patterns is one of the hottest fields in AI research today and is not well understoo... See more
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- Some of the most poignant arguments against AI and artificial consciousness stem from the existentialist and phenomenological traditions, notably those of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (who was well-steeped in the neuroscience of his time). Their views, once ridiculed and ignored by AI scientists, have found their way ... See more
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- Life has not yet been created in a lab, and consciousness has not been created from synthetic life. To create it from dead matter is an altogether harder challenge. Yet this does not discourage Ray Kurzweil, the high priest of transhumanism, from predicting we will be able to upload our consciousness into a computer.
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- In 2005, Science Magazine chose the “hard problem” of consciousness as the second most important unanswered problem in science.
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- AI engineers mentalize machines while mechanizing minds.
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- A normally functioning brain is necessary but not sufficient for experience. The correlations of subjective experience with patterns of neural activity do not establish the causality of brain-generated consciousness. (Papinaeu 2001).
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- Cells, brains, and organisms are all made of matter. But life is more significant than matter. For instance, autopoiesis, the ability for self-maintenance and self-replication, is unique to life and not found in the physiosphere.
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- The hard problem is to explain how matter can give rise to subjective experience. How does a physical system like the brain generate consciousness? How can the taste of vanilla be distinguished from the smell of lavender through patterns of neural activity? How does the brain, a physical object, create non-physical essences, such as values, purpose... See more
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