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Pollan: Consciousness Is Not Fully Computable Because Brains Are Analog
“I don't think everything consciousness does or is, is computable. I think the brain is more analog than digital in many ways.”
Pollan: Silicon Valley AI consciousness debates ignore pressing real-world problems
“And so much of the Silicon Valley conversation strikes me as a way to address fun thought experiments about the future and absolutely ignore what's going on in our world today.”
Pollan: Humans will not grant conscious AI moral consideration
“The idea we're automatically going to treat them with all this moral consideration because they're conscious. That seems given the fact we continue to eat animals. We know we full well know our conscious. I don't know that we're quite as enlightened as that co…”
Pollan: Lab-grown brain organoids have a shot at achieving consciousness
“We also have, we're building brain organelles in, in a solution. I think they've got a shot at becoming conscious. They're working from up from, you know, actual brain cells forming organisms together.”