Can AI be conscious? limits of Turing tests

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Stuart Hameroff is an astrobiologist, retired anesthesiologist and leader of the Science of Consciousness conferences at the University of Arizona. Hameroff is best known for his controversial belief that consciousness originates from quantum states in neural microtubules.

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OUTLINE

00:00 - Connection between anesthesia & consciousness

02:14 - How anesthesia works

08:54 - Overdosing vs. underdosing anesthesia

12:31 - Scariest patients to administer anesthesia to

15:45 - Why computers can't replicate consciousness

21:18 - Consciousness & the collapse of the wave function

29:15 - Consciousness is fundamental, not emergent

30:19 - Simulation theory is a "cop-out"

34:29 - NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid sample return mission

40:56 - The origin of life on Earth

42:20 - Microtubules & time crystals

43:58 - Evidence of consciousness in plants

46:27 - Why microtubules could be the source of consciousness

48:25 - Can AI develop consciousness?

53:48 - Psilocybin consciousness experiment

55:08 - What happens to consciousness when the body dies

01:01:53 - Consciousness is controlled by our subconscious

01:03:32 - How evolution is driven by consciousness & pleasure

01:06:47 - Life is the vehicle for consciousness

01:10:32 - How to create consciousness from scratch

01:13:13 - Consciousness in the afterlife & reincarnation

01:15:23 - Consciousness is a hologram

01:17:35 - How psychedelics elevate consciousness

01:23:25 - The logic of dreams

01:25:37 - memories encoded in organ transplants

01:32:07 - How to confirm microtubules hypotheses

01:35:53 - The leading Alzheimer's treatment is a scam

01:41:41 - Top Alzheimer's treatment researchers VANISHED

01:44:20 - New theoretical Alzheimer's cure

01:50:08 - Beneficial effects of ultrasound therapy

01:53:58 - Dangers of ultrasound technology

01:59:18 - New study on ultrasound on the brain

02:06:11 - Proof of ultrasound reversing Alzheimer's

02:09:10 - Quantum consciousness + parapsychology

02:16:42 - Neuron biology & why the brain is more than a computer

02:20:09 - Suspicious movement of plasma ball lightning

02:23:18 - Anesthesia vs. the corona effects

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