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Joanna Bryson: The Problems of Cognition

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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The Importance of Consciousness

I use that definition because all the really interesting questions, everybody wants to know what is consciousness and what does my sister see the same color as I do. You want to be able to take those pieces apart, whether or not whichever label you happen to choose to apply to them. So yeah, so going back to that's part of why I spent a lot of time looking at monkeys was because, you learn a lot, it sure is like undergraduate without rats.

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