Consciousness

@BenjaminDYoung That was actually my own personal claim :-)

...will ever be possible. Consciousness is a highly complex and mysterious phenomenon, and we currently do not have a complete understanding of how it arises. It is possible that there are fundamental limitations to our ability to create consciousness in artificial systems.

2. It is difficult to say whether humans will be able to create artificial consciousness in the future. Some scientists and philosophers believe that it is only a matter of time before we develop the technology to create conscious machines, while others are skeptical that this...

#GenerativeAI is fascinating, and opens up endless new possibilities. As impressive as the capabilities are, it's still a mathematical model that most likely doesn't have any consciousness. Of course I had to ask #ChatGPT about consciousness. The answers were well balanced:

How we should understand #consciousness - buff.ly/1oF3owC by @JohnRSearle

"The ontology of the unconscious consists of neurophysiological processes capable of causing subjective conscious thoughts." by @JohnRSearle

Highly recommended: "The Rediscovery of the Mind" by @JohnRSearle

Toward a Theory of Self-Organized Criticality in the Brain simonsfoundation.org/quanta/2014040…

Adam Barrett: New paper laying out my stance on the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness (and a... fb.me/1zJXiW4go

My tribute to my mentor, the Nobel laureate and pioneering neuroscientist Dr. Gerald M. Edelman anilkseth.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/dar… #sccs

Theories and measures of consciousness, article by Seth, Izhikevich, Reeke, Edelman izhikevich.org/publications/h…

Max Velmans (1991) argues that consciousness relates closely to information dissemination in the brain cogprints.org/246/1/velman11…

Movie Clips Reconstructed From Brain Waves livescience.com/16190-movies-r… via @LiveScience

I wonder how many independent consciousnesses could theoretically be achieved by separating the brain into smaller pieces?

The creation of the universe out of nothing, birth of life from inorganic, dead matter, and creation of consciousness out of organic matter.

Thomas Mann's character Professor Kuckuck talks about "the three fundamental and mysterious stages of creation":

Reading "The Quest for Consciousness - A Neurobiological Approach" by Christof Koch, based on joint research with Francis Crick