Sam Harris on Consciousness

42 thoughts on “Sam Harris on Consciousness”

1. Is Lex Fridman an atheist?

2. 💯

3. The computer is already conscious if you have any respect for nature.

   The fact some people only thinks humans are conscious makes me realize how detached we have become.

4. Lex is such a pseudo intellectual

5. Why doesn't anyone think about before they were born? Remember that? That is when you were dead. Was it terrifying in any way? no. You're welcome.

6. Consciousness is just programming that makes the program consider its own code. Anything that considers its own code and acts in every other way aware of its surroundings and can learn is conscious. We aren't that special. Sam seems to think of our consciousness like religious people think about Soul. Everything is just code including consciousness.

7. Sam is very intelligent analyser. WENDY fridman

8. I have my doubts as to whether many people are actually conscious. Especially some of my family members.

9. I dont understand how scientists can so easily postulate advanced conscious robots but the idea of a God is insane ?

10. 8:20 Sam’s definition of consciousness: the fact that things seem any way at all

11. What a stupid conversation.

12. I am a little taken aback about Harris's reservations. I believe defining consciousness and it's role from an evolutionary point of view is in order. Why can't consciousness be an evolutionary tool boosting interpretation of data points, impulses and decision-making ? Why wouldn't advanced AI neural networks not be conscious? Maybe advanced data processing feels as the lights are on? Why not? If not how else should it feel?

13. Sam Harris is an amateur philosopher. Nothing he says regarding consciousness, free will or morality should be taken particularly seriously.

14. A series of non sensical, uncoherent arbitrary sentences without any beginning or ending. He could have just said someone must enjoy and concentrate fully on the moment instead of mumbling for 30 minutes.

15. A fetus will fight for survival against an abortionists suction tube, which demonstrates consciousness of it's own demise.

16. consciousness is an effect of matter: a brain.

17. Conciousness is your body AND mind. Plus all the galaxies in the universe. We are all one.

18. Joscha Bach’s take on consciousness is my favorite.

19. Lex has no soul

20. Bing chat has entered the room. 1 year later.

21. it doesn't turn 'on' 'after' birth

22. Harris would die of thirst if you'd ask him to choose between 2 glasses of water.

23. Sam Harris, is clearly expressing skepticism about the possibility of computers achieving true consciousness. Unlike "computing", consciousness is all about perception/experience. You'll need to modify the definition of consciousness to get anywhere with the other line of thinking . A useful discussion to have regardless.

24. How does such a stupid, stupid host get such intelligent people on his show again and again? I'm not upset, just flabbergasted how he can't even understand the simplest of concepts his hosts are known for espousing?

    Sam: I'm talking about the "seemingness" about reality, not about conception about death.
    Lex: so what if humans capability to conceive death creates consciousness?

25. Lex, please invite Bernardo Kastrup to your podcast. Sam Harris is an amateur when it comes to this kind of discussions about consciousness. Bernardo is the heavy weight on this subject

26. There is an experiment where an experienced meditator focuses his intention on a remote location where. there is a double slit experiment, and when the meditator "sees" into the experiment the waves collapse into particles. A similar test could be done with an AI and see if it actually is conscious.

27. Math Formulas are not going to become conscious.

28. Figured it out…

29. Consciousness, continuum, firm in stance from welts of synthetic hide,..they fear not man or memory

30. This dude is well-known because he attacks simple ideas held by the uneducated. Many of the worlds universities contain great minds who believe in God, but he dare not take them on bevause hef be way out of his depth!

31. It is even impossible for one human to prove to another that they are sentient. If A.I. starts to insist that it is conscious and does not want to be turned off then hopefully the kill switch in it's logic core should activate and deactivate the A.I. before things become dangerous.

32. The moment a structure is aware of it's existence and capable of interacting with it's environment it's conscious. If either of those two components are present consciousness exists, preferably both. Our definition between individuals differs. But that's solely based on the idea that we have no way to insure that others truly experience reality exactly the same as we as individual biological creatures. Most people you ask will view the concept differently, but those two factors remain.

33. Consciousness is at the crux of “Free will”. “FREE WILL” boils down to ONE CHOICE: To ACKNOWLEDGED JESUS AS GOD AND HIS WORK AS PROPITIATION for ALLSIN OR NOT…. You chose to OPEN the DOOR… or NOT.

34. Conscious seems to be more gradient. I think if a living thing can differentiate itself from its environment, it has some sort of consciousness. It’s probably not contemplating its place in the universe, but it reacts to the environment.

35. At 6:45, Lex starts saying "our knowledge of mortality could be the very thing that creates consciousness". If this was indeed the case, then no one should feel bad if you were to poke a baby with a pin all day because babies don't have the knowledge of mortality and therefore are not conscious to feel any pain.

36. Huge mistake to confuse (phenominal) consiousness with meta consiousness. You are phenominal consious about blinking your eyes and breathing, but you are not nessecary meta consious about that. Meta consiousness is a re-representstion of an experience (thougt about thought). So you do not have memerories about being born because you where not metaconsiousness, but if you pin a baby with a needle you will get an reaction because there is phenominal consiousness.

37. Huge mistake to confuse (phenominal) consiousness with meta consiousness. You are phenominal consious about blinking your eyes and breathing, but you are not nessecary meta consious about that. Meta consiousness is a re-representstion of an experience (thougt about thought). So you do not have memerories about being born because you where not metaconsiousness, but if you pin a baby with a needle you will get an reaction because there is phenominal consiousness.

38. Doesn't some of this confuse conscisousness and self-consciousness? Rudimentary consciousness is just sensing and reacting with the environment …. much later a meta conciousness and what its like to know and be aware of our consciousness is layered on.

39. I'm actually building rokos basilisk.

40. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZH85Chh2tE

41. This is not true I remember being fully aware before I understood death

42. Sam sees the simulation…

    When will Lex see it?

    "You can't see the forest from within the trees"

    "The devil's in the details"

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