Reflections on Humanity's Future and Consciousness

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw7omaQ8SgA

Joscha Bach meets with Ben Goertzel to discuss cognitive architectures, AGI, and conscious computers in another theolocution on TOE.

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LINKS MENTIONED:

- OpenCog (Ben's Ai company): https://opencog.org

- SingularityNET (Ben's Decentralized Ai company): https://singularitynet.io

- Podcast w/ Joscha Bach on TOE: https://youtu.be/3MNBxfrmfmI

- Podcast w/ Ben Goertzel on TOE: https://youtu.be/27zHyw_oHSI

- Podcast w/ Michael Levin and Joscha on TOE: https://youtu.be/kgMFnfB5E_A

- Podcast w/ John Vervaeke and Joscha on TOE: https://youtu.be/rK7ux_JhHM4

- Podcast w/ Donald Hoffman and Joscha on TOE: https://youtu.be/bhSlYfVtgww

TIMESTAMPS:

- 00:00:00 Introduction

- 00:02:23 Computation vs Awareness

- 00:06:11 The paradox of language and self-contradiction

- 00:10:05 The metaphysical categories of Charles Peirce

- 00:13:00 Zen Buddhism's category of zero

- 00:14:18 Carl Jung's interpretation of four

- 00:21:22 Language as "representation"

- 00:28:48 Computational reality vs AGI

- 00:33:06 Consciousness in particles

- 00:44:18 Anesthesia and consciousness: Joscha's personal perspective

- 00:54:36 Levels of consciousness levels (panpsychism vs functionalism)

- 00:56:23 Deep neural nets & LLMs as steps backward from AGI?

- 01:05:04 Emergent properties of LLMs

- 01:12:26 Turing-completeness and its implications

- 01:15:08 OpenAI's bold claims challenged

- 01:24:24 Future of AGI

- 01:31:58 Intelligent species after human extinction

- 01:36:33 Emergence of a cosmic mind

- 01:43:56 The timeline to AGI development

- 01:52:16 The physics of immortality

- 01:54:00 Critique of Integrated Information Theory (pseudoscience?)

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