Turing Rabbit Holes Podcast
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EPISODE SUMMARY:
How does consciousness arise from matter? In this first episode in a series, hosts of the Turing Rabbit Holes Podcast Alex Alaniz and Gabriel Hesch discuss the concepts of consciousness, self-reference, and recursion as they are presented in Douglas Hofstadter’s Pulitzer prize winning tome “Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.” Also discussed: how supercomputers and artificial intelligence are intelligent behaving, but not actually intelligent in the true sense of the word.
Resources:
“The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think.” James Somers. The Atlantic Monthly. November 2013.
https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/309529/
“How Gödel’s Proof Works.” Natalie Wolchover. Quanta Magazine. 14 July 2020.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-godels-incompleteness-theorems-work-20200714/
Wikipedia: Gödel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach. Accessed 17 July 2020
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Interesting discussion for sure. You guys seem to dance away from the sort of spiritual side of this discussion. I don't see how we can separate that, I use a more secular spiritual (oxymoron) view of these things. This conversation reminds me of Robert Pirsig in "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" and his difficulties with the word quality. Great talk and I look forward to more episodes.
Consciousness explained. Dispongo de una explicación para la Consciencia. brand.guillermo@gmail.com
I am proud of Gabe “He knows stuff about things” I aspire to that! Good job.