>
> Agreed.  The beliefs we have expressed are certainly beyond humanity's
> current powers of explanation, and at least certain aspects of them probably
> always will be.  But as I expressed in my recent discussion of Richard's
> paper, I think science will know much more about consciousness in 50 years
> (roughly 30 of which should be after the advent of human level AGI.  Not
> enough to remove all of its mysteries, but probably enough to remove some of
> them.

It's impossible to know what the world will look like to us once we've massively
expanded our intelligence... for sure...

> More interesting is your belief that computational systems *focus"
> consciousness in particular ways.  Can you be any more specific about this
> belief?
>

I plan to write something systematic about this (an essay or a blog post)
sometime in the next few weeks, so I'll save it for that.

I'm wary of putting too much energy into emails, which are ephemeral
by nature ;-)

ben g


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