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Jul 23, 2024

What Creates Consciousness?

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Renowned researchers David Chalmers and Anil Seth join Brian Greene to explore how far science and philosophy have gone toward explaining the greatest of all mysteries, consciousness–and whether artificially intelligent systems may one day possess it.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

Participants:
David Chalmers.
Anil Seth.

Moderator:
Brian Greene.

00:00 — Introduction.
02:35 — Participant Introductions.
03:50 — Will an Artificial System Ever Become Conscious?
05:32 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness.
08:32 — Thought Experiment: Mary and the Nature of Conscious Experience.
13:28 — The Hard Problem and The Real Problem of Consciousness.
21:53 — The Brain as a Prediction Machine.
25:41 — Possible Solutions to the Hard Problem.
33:15 — Will AI Systems Become Conscious and How Will We Know?
40:11 — Is Human Consciousness the Only One Example of Conscious-like Experience?
42:19 — The Future of Creating Consciousness and the Ethical Questions.
44:39 — Credits.

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