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Is There Really a Hard Problem of Consciousness? - Dr. Joscha Bach, Artificial Intelligence Researcher

The DemystifySci Podcast

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The Importance of Resonance in AI

The brain is a collection of things just in the right moment. Your own resonant internal state is at this receptive place where this sounds crazy, but I think that we agree that biology has a lot to do with phonons. So there's basically cyclical waves that are passing through the neural substrate and producing behavior. This spreading of these activation fronts is so slow that it's roughly at the speed of sound. But for now, there's not a bad metaphor. There is nothing that is heroically different. It's just a particular way to look at the computations.

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