consciousness

“Sentience and consciousness as scientific topics are pre-theoretic. We don't even have a scientific framework for discussing sentience and consciousness. And I believe he's right. We haven't even scratched the surface on how to scientifically discuss that topi…”

“My suspicion is that the materiality of life really matters for consciousness, and what we're likely to come up with are machines that give us the strong impression of being conscious. But for which we will just not know whether there's anything it is like to …”

“And think that as systems increase in their level of intelligence at some point, usually the point at which we begin to approximate human level intelligence, the lights come on for that system and suddenly it is not only intelligent, it's also aware, but this …”

“You know, while it may appear that a Claude or a ChatGPT is generating stuff, at the end of the day, it's just predicting the next word, right, the next word after that. It has no consciousness because it cannot say no to you. It can only predict an answer tha…”

“And also I do not believe it is even the kind of thing from which consciousness exists. It doesn't exist in any Again, to my point about Doug Hofstetter it doesn't exist in any self-referential loop. In fact, it doesn't exist at all except when I instantiate i…”

“I don't think everything consciousness does or is, is computable. I think the brain is more analog than digital in many ways.”

“I think that there is some wish fulfillment that we have something that is immaterial that therefore might survive the mortal body. I think behind a lot of people's talk about consciousness is the word soul, even though it's not articulated, but what is the so…”

“The Turing test doesn't work for this consciousness question. It was designed for the intelligence question which is somewhat simpler.”

“I also think consciousness is really helpful in a social situation. When you're dealing with a world that is fundamentally unpredictable. That is to say what other people are going to do at any given time, what other people are going to say at any given time. …”

“You know, people have been trying to do what has worked everywhere else in science, which is reduce phenomenon to mass, you know, to matter and energy. And it's been an incredibly productive strategy, but it doesn't seem to work Yet with consciousness and that…”