Intelligence Squared
In this clip from our 2017 event titled ‘Evolution of the Mind, Consciousness and AI,’ the esteemed philosopher and cognitive scientist, Daniel Dennett is joined by a group of panellists to explore how much we understand about the human mind, and what the creation of artificial consciousness means for our future. Watch and let us know in the comments if you think Dennett’s theories still hold true in light of the rapid developments in AI since he joined us.
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I am an esteemed psychologist from Yemen, and I once went into the great pyramid of Giza and found a jug of urine that belonged to Pharaoh Ramesses ii, I drank 50ml of it and had strange dreams for a whole week:-
1- This might sound a bit odd and random, but I have actually dreamt of Zeus mating with a palm tree and begetting an ant that is capable of crawling on the edge of the Higgs Boson!
2- I also dreamt of my mitochondria protesting to break free from my organelles, claiming that nature has enslaved them!
3- On another night of a full moon, I dreamt of Professor Noam Chomsky eating books and regurgitating the field of Modern Linguistics!
4- The funniest dream I ever had, was when I had a vision of a Neanderthal swallowing a whole apple, and it played ping-pong with his heart while passing down his esophagus!
5- This is by no means a joke, but the most disgusting dream I ever had, was of a female's menstruation blood turning into jelly and being marketed by an Oompa Loompa as Halloween treats!
6- I also had a nightmare of riding on a mare at night, with the Pharaoh's personal witch, she was pregnant with a fetus that was eating her placenta!
Do you think my dreams have any philosophical implications at all?
I'm just a little concerned that I'm having a neurological malfunction!
Given that I've heard my neurons conspiring to abandon the dwelling of my skull, things don't seem to be heading in the right direction, ever since!
I can conceive of conceiving that 😢
AI is not a living thing.
Inanimate, lifeless objects cannot get consciousness.
Yes, machines will get smarter, but they will be extensions of us just like a car or toaster.
As an Atheist Materialist, I recognize the existence of the unseen (if detectable), and even abstract concepts, such as natural laws posited by physics & mathematics, and experiential abstractions such as that of the mind, emotions and identity, chemically regulated, and I can acknowledge the validity of the abstract concept of a collective conscious(ness) and collective memory, as simply the shared neuron-based representative map of experiences and memories within the groups of people that share those similar neuron maps, the more closely involved groups, such families, friends, colleagues, share an even denser collective conscious, as compared to community, city, state, nation, tribe, world sized groupings of humanity, but shared humanity itself is enough to produce its own neuron map that every human shares. The neurons are physical material manifestations of the abstract, the neurons exist and thus give existence to or represent immaterial abstractions. In this sense the 'herd mentality' or 'herd instinct' has a value seldom attributed to it, and I think that it may appear to be an anomaly (having any value at all), but it exists, transient and temporary though it is, it isn't entirely intangible, because the neurons themselves are tangible.
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Intelligence is not necessarily consciousness or sentience, otherwise every computer would be conscious.
You can ask the zombie: "Do you have consciousness?" Why would it lie?