Exploring Consciousness and Autonomy in AI

Professor Mark Bishop does not think that computers can be conscious or have phenomenological states of consciousness unless we are willing to accept panpsychism which is idea that mentality is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world, or put simply, that your goldfish and everything else for that matter has a mind. Panpsychism postulates that distinctions between intelligences are largely arbitrary.

Mark’s work in the ‘philosophy of AI’ led to an influential critique of computational approaches to Artificial Intelligence through a thorough examination of John Searle's 'Chinese Room Argument'

Mark just published a paper called artificial intelligence is stupid and causal reasoning wont fix it. He makes it clear in this paper that in his opinion computers will never be able to compute everything, understand anything, or feel anything. 

00:00:00​ Tim Intro

00:15:04​ Intro 

00:18:49​ Introduction to Marks ideas 

00:25:49​ Some problems are not computable 

00:29:57​ the dancing was Pixies fallacy 

00:32:36​ The observer relative problem, and its all in the mapping 

00:43:03​ Conscious Experience 

00:53:30​ Intelligence without representation, consciousness is something that we do 

01:02:36​ Consciousness helps us to act autonomously 

01:05:13​ The Chinese room argument 

01:14:58​ Simulation argument and computation doesn't have phenomenal consciousness 

01:17:44​ Language informs our colour perception 

01:23:11​ We have our own distinct ontologies 

01:27:12​ Kurt Gödel, Turing and Penrose and the implications of their work