Conscious AI: The Future of Intelligence

There is no consensus theory about what the minimal necessary and sufficient conditions are for a conscious system. We're always walking this line between being anthropocentric or projecting human-like qualities into other things on the basis of similarities that turn out to be rather superficial. The big question here is one of substrate dependency. It doesn't matter that a computer is made out of silicon chips and wires broadly, and we're made out of flesh and blood and cells and carbon broadly. And I think we apply this idea that the brain is just doing information processing - it's a little bit too lazy and easy. But let's open up the brain again and have a look inside. There's no colors.