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Currents 083: Joscha Bach on Synthetic Intelligence

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The Contribution of IIT

I think that the description of phenomenology in IIT is quite good but not axiomatic, it's a bit business needing to call it axioms. And about the main contribution of IIT is the claim that there is a relationship to how something is implemented and how it works. Toni argues that conceivably we could build a neuromorphic computer maybe at some point that is conscious. But a digital phononomer computer that is sequential processing cannot be conscious. At least not very conscious. You can have a five greater than zero but it would be difficult to have it to be high.

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