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Currents 083: Joscha Bach on Synthetic Intelligence

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The Purpose of Life on Earth

I think that the underlying purpose of life on earth is dealing with entropy. It's maintaining your own complexity and agency in the face of relentless attacks by anthropic principles. Once this principle spreads, it's probably not going to stop at digital substrates because once it understands how it works, it can extend itself into any kind of computational substrate. I suspect that nervous systems discover consciousness very often and very early. And most animals probably have consciousness as if you want to go beyond having a learning,. You probably need self-reflexive attention to create coherence in a system.

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