Can AI Ever Be Truly Conscious? Johannes Niederhauser and Sean McFadden
Dr. John Vervaeke
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The Importance of Relevance Realization
There is ultimately a pantomime of relevance realization. There's no real meaning. And I think lacking both of those you can't have any of the functions of consciousness. So it's very reasonable to conclude that this machine does not have consciousness or original meaning which means it can't care about the truth, because caring relevance realization consciousness, and it can't monitor itself. But here's the point I want to make before we're safe: It's self-deceiving for itself. That's the argument I made earlier in the interview. We'll be back next week with another episode of The Neuroscientist’s Guide to Consciousness on BBC1 at 9pm ET/
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