Bernardo Kastrup is super-critical of those who confuse intelligence with
consciousness, especially those who think that that an AI built with
silicon chips ("sand") could ever be conscious.
via https://twitter.com/BernardoKastrup/status/1338214536940228610
I*nterview at NeuroTech2020 - Bernardo Kastrup*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93fk1fgeX0
[ Though chips made with "actual biological neurons, taken from mice and
humans" maybe!
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/cortical-labs-startup-biological-neurons/
]
@philipthrift
On Monday, December 14, 2020 at 8:22:57 PM UTC-6 Brent wrote:
> I agree. I'm an advocate of the engineering solution to the "hard
> problem of consciousness". When we can build AI's that act intelligently
> and explain their conscious thoughts and we can adjust them so that they
> are more or less humorous or optimistic v. pessimstic or intuitive v.
> contemplative, etc...then we will have understood as much as there is to
> understand about consciousness.
>
> Brent
>
>
> On 12/14/2020 4:46 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
>
> I wince when people bring consciousness into scientific discussions. It is
> not entirely clear how consciousness can ever be a fully scientific
> subject. Maybe within the soft problem limits it can be somewhat
> scientific. The qualia or hard problem I think is outside of science.
>
> LC
>
>
>
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