consciousness
What it is for there to be something it is like to be a system, and whether that can be measured.
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Elon Musk quoted
Their wordsExtending consciousness beyond Earth, ultimately to the stars, is a fundamentally good goal
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Ralph Adolphs quoted
Their wordsAnd the other question is if you tie emotion to the the conscious experience of emotion, that is you equate you conflate emotions with feelings. Well, then you're not studying emotions, you're studying consciousness.
↗Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphsyoutube.com 5th of 22 in this recording
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Ralph Adolphs quoted
Their wordsI think it's a uniquely at least as we have it it's uniquely human emotion and it's based on a broad sort of metacognitive ability we have which is to detach our conscious experience from the here and now and do like mental time travel.
↗Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphsyoutube.com 11th of 22 in this recording
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Max Hodak quoted
Their wordsNow, if we had a tech if we had a magical BCI that allowed me to see the instant state of every neuron in the brain and and drive them, I think we'd figure out consciousness pretty fast. I don't think I think this is a practical problem, not a philosophical problem.
↗Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enoughyoutube.com 17th of 22 in this recording
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Anil Seth quoted
Their wordsSecond, we describe with nuance the distinct flavour of panpsychism implied by IIT - whereby space (and time) are tiled with substrates of (proto-) consciousness - and find this is not problematic for the theory.
↗Integrated information theory: the good, the bad and the misunderstood (with 6 co-authors)arxiv.org 1st of 3 in this piece
- 7 months earlier
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Norman Ohler quoted
Our readingThe Neanderthals lost to us because they had no drug culture — they were too sober for the future.
Their wordsAnd I think, a lot of evidence kind of points to it that we were able to develop our consciousness in a better way than the Neanderthals, who did not have a drug culture. They were basically too sober for the future. We assimilated them.
↗Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA | Lex Fridman Podcast #481youtube.com 18th of 22 in this recording
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Graham Hancock quoted
Their wordsWe cannot say that we are free if we allow our government to dictate to us what experiences we may or may not have in our inner consciousness, while doing no harm to others.
↗Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History | Lex Fridman Podcast #449youtube.com 22nd of 25 in this recording
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Sara Walker quoted
Their wordsYeah. I think if you’re thinking about this thinking about living things as these giant causal structures or these objects that are deep in time or whatever language we end up using to describe it seems to me that consciousness is about the fact that we have a conscious experience is because we are these temporally extended objects. Consciousness and the abstraction that we have in our minds is actually a manifestation of all the time that’s rolled up in us.
↗Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #433youtube.com 17th of 22 in this recording
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Sean Carroll quoted
Their wordsThat’s different than something being emergent or non-fundamental, but also real. This table is real, even though I know it’s made of atoms, that doesn’t remove the realness from the table. I think that consciousness and free will and things like that are just as real in tables and chairs.
↗Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #428youtube.com 16th of 20 in this recording
- 5 months earlier
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Elon Musk quoted
Their wordswhich is that we don’t know the meaning of life, but the more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, digital and biological, the more we’re able to understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe. So I have a philosophy of curiosity.
↗Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400youtube.com 9th of 23 in this recording
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Nick Lane quoted
Our readingAI will out-think us, but it will not become conscious, because consciousness is a property of life.
Their wordsBut in terms of what we value the most as humans, which is to say our feelings, our emotions, our sense of what the world is in a very personal way that I think means as much or more to people than their information processing. And that’s where I don’t think that AI necessarily will become conscious because I think it’s the property of life.
↗Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318youtube.com 16th of 22 in this recording
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Nick Lane quoted
Their wordsDo we need to have some system which is capable of overriding a rational decision which cannot be made because there’s too much conflicting information by effectively an emotional judgmental decision that just says do this and see what happens? That’s what consciousness is really doing in my view.
↗Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318youtube.com 18th of 22 in this recording
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Nick Lane quoted
Their wordsI don’t think there’s a big mystery. There’s lots of details that need to be filled in. The big mystery in biology is consciousness.
↗Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318youtube.com 21st of 22 in this recording
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Émile P. Torres quoted
Their wordsA superintelligence whose goal system is even slightly misaligned with ours could, being far more powerful than any human or human institution, bring about human extinction for the very same reason that construction workers routinely slaughter large populations of ants.
↗Why superintelligence is a threat that should be taken seriouslythebulletin.org 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Wayne Hale quoted
Their wordsWhen we have built colonies on every habitable niche, then maybe we will find a way to go to the stars.
↗Manifest Destiny or Pipe Dream?waynehale.wordpress.com 2nd of 2 in this piece