Richard Ngo is a researcher at OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT. He was recently interviewed by the 80,000 Hours podcast. I quote from the int...
Don't be silly Glen, we've barely scratched the surface. Of course there's nothing wrong with generalising, but it doesn't make for an interesting phi...
You're doing the generalisation thing again. It's not a democratic decision, it doesn't matter how many people believe something. Focus on what indivi...
This is something I touched on in a response to Josh's above. I think only living things are entities of the appropriate kind. A single-celled organis...
Metals. molecules and mountains are examples of observer-independent phenomena. They are whatever they are and they do whatever they do regardless of ...
Do you want to understand? Or do you want to be like this: Celebrating ignorance. We're encouraged to apply the Principle of Charity here. In brief, w...
I do think consciousness is a phenomenon some living things have produced. I think that a certain prerequisite for consciousness is present in single-...
No, don't lurk, engage with what other people are saying. I'd like for example to continue the discussion about the Computational Theory of Mind and t...
I think you need to stop making sweeping statements about what members here believe. We're individuals, we have different beliefs and approaches. You ...
Well I thought you were saying quantum computation might cause consciousness, and ?180 Proof seemed to think that neural nets might do it, and as far ...
There are those who say we may never understand consciousness, the so-called Mysterians, led by British philosopher Colin McGinn. And David Chalmers i...
No, if anything it's the opposite. The argument aims to show that computation can't cause consciousness because computation is an observer-dependent p...
Perhaps you would like to elaborate on how you know this? Do you think there's anyone on the forum here who doesn't have awareness of their feelings? ...
But it isn't the case that we know NOTHING about what consciousness is, we have gained a vast amount of knowledge about it in my lifetime and that kno...
I still think you are misinterpreting the meaning of "observer-dependent" as I'm using it. Money and marriage are observer-dependent phenomena, in tha...
I think perhaps you are mistaking the status of the "observer" in "observer-relative". None of this is closely related to the (pseudo-) Problem of Oth...
Hm. Well then I don't think you do understand the Chinese Room. What it shows is that semantics is not intrinsic to the computer. Some ten years later...
I know that many objections have been raised, but I haven't been convinced by any of them. Searle's argument from the observer-dependent nature of dig...
Hi Glen, I don't really like it when people here refer me to some external article, book or paper, but these few pages from the introduction to Searle...
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel-and-adventure/2017/11/incredible-british-artist-can-draw-whole-city-memory It's said that he draws citysca...
Ok, but I am positing the separation of organisms as a prerequisite. But awareness is an aspect of consciousness. The chemical process isn't aware of ...
It's very common for programmers not to understand how computers work. It isn't taught, even on university level computation courses. That's a very mu...
The reduction to 0/1 states occurs in our minds, and not in the physics of the machine. You can see and try to understand these words. That exemplifie...
My contention is that it is separate from its environment in a particular, crucial way. Non-living things are not separated in the same way. Can you s...
The Petri dish isn't a boundary of the appropriate type. With single-celled organisms, the boundary is the cell wall. Individual bacteria have non-con...
A cargo cult is an indigenist millenarian belief system, in which adherents perform rituals which they believe will cause a more technologically advan...
The discussion so far has prompted a lot of thinking on my part so thanks for that. I've been reading and watching lectures about "What Is Life?". Liv...
When you're unconscious Bert1, is it like anything? It isn't for me. I'm pretty sure that's the same for everybody. I have been unconscious when aslee...
I've been reading about this the last couple of days, and watching videos. There are many definitions, depending on the focus of the person providing ...
The idea I'm contemplating is that the "suddenness" of the onset of conscious experience may be due to the nature of conscious experience, rather than...
However, there is ordinary conductivity in place in the material before the superconductivity switches in. Which is similar to the position @Possibili...
I've been giving this some thought, and realised that there are such states, they are exemplified by the research I referred to. The mouse senses the ...
In an academic paper I would expect to see references. Something to back this up: "Grey matter of dendrites, soma and the interior of axons is darkly ...
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