
Can AI Ever Be Truly Conscious? Johannes Niederhauser and Sean McFadden
Dr. John Vervaeke
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The Evolution of Consciousness in AI
I am, I got interested and involved in consciousness research specifically like scientific consciousness research other than purely philosophical one. One of the things that became really amazing was how quickly a lot of the advocates of the machine dropped their ontology without realizing it. They started to invoke real emergence that was not epiphenomenal but causal. And then they found the scientific theory of consciousness that would it was most easily in line which was to know these integrated information theory. For me, that became a, for me it became a modus tolins on Tony's theory. There's really, really good reasons for believing that it's not conscious.
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