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16. Consciousness
Category: Technology
Duration: 01:13:45
Publish Date: 2017-05-21 00:00:00
Description:

Can AI be conscious?

## Resources

Philosophy of Mind: Brains, Consciousness, and Thinking Machines (http://amzn.to/2kQGgk5) `audio:easy`

## Episode

Inspirations for AI - economic automation - singularity - consciousness

Definitinitions - cogsci: neuroscience, neuro-x(biology, physiology, computational __, etc), psychology, philosophy, AI ** computational neuroscience => perceptron ** frank rosenblatt, warren McCulloche, walter pitts - all brain guys (neurobiology, neurophysiology, computational neuroscience respectively) - intelligence (computation) vs consciousness (soul); intelligence in scale (animals); brain in scale; consciousness in scale? - perception, self-identity, memory, attention; (self reflection is just a human-special component) - awereness (qualia / sentience / subjective experience); modified by attention? (driving, dreams, coma) - missing: emotions; just built-in goal reinforcemer. plus we don't know how machines experience reinforcement (floor-is-lava)

Hard vs soft problem ** soft problem = neuroscience ** hard problem = philosophy ** dualism: pineal gland, issue with physical->metaphysical; society of mind / connected intelligences ** maybe definitively non-science, since subjective ** maybe matter of time; phil is pre-science at each juncture; science turns magic => known (sickness). Either hard problem is unscientific (phil) or around the corner

Emergence (emergent property)

Computational theory of mind - intelligence & consciousness connected / same - think: word2vec = understanding? - consciousness in scale; does this mean every layer has its own consciousness? Panpsychism. I don't know - just concerned with that which does exhibit intelligence - integrated information theory - freewill; conscious / awareness center activated after decision made; all the information in place before whole ; westworld

Biological plausibility - planes, brains - sans bio-plaus, functionalism; zombies; turing test; searle's chinese room
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