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Daniel Situnayake: AI on the Edge
The Gradient: Perspectives on AI
The Hard Problem of Consciousness
I want to dig into a couple of these parts of your view here, just because I find it really interesting. You mentioned that you feel like maybe a processor or something doing computations, you wouldn't classify as conscious having a sense of being but the matter forming it might. Like there is something which it is to be an atom of sodium, for example. And that that kind of helps explain how what feels like a kind of complex self-awareness perhaps arises through the conjunction of different bits of matter in different ways. It seems a bit of a stretch to me that think, because essentially, if you have the right program, you could implement it on a piece of paper with a pen
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