Human Consciousness
topic on 4 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
the a16z Podcast 
Big Technology
4 statements about Human Consciousness, every show
Pollan: Human claims to unique intelligence and culture are falling apart
“Our definition of the human, what's special about us, which has always been related to our intelligence and consciousness, is under enormous pressure today from these thinking machines and possibly feeling machines, and then from all these animals that we're l…”
Musk: Expanding consciousness helps humanity frame better questions about the universe
“So I think by expanding the scope and scale of consciousness, we can better under, understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe.”
Andreessen: Human understanding of consciousness will not advance in 30 years
“And we're going to be sitting here 30 years from now and we're still not going to have any more knowledge, you know, barring other scientific breakthroughs of the kind that you're talking about.”
Josh Wolfe: Modern AI research will help unlock human consciousness mysteries
“I think we are going to learn more about human consciousness as we interrogate the systems and try to understand how much of the modern approaches in an AI are working to sense, make models, make predictions on those models, iterate and learn.
And I think that…”