What I Don't Understand Is Substrate Independence of Minds

In this episode, we talk about his new book, Life 3.0, Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. We discuss the nature of intelligence, the risks of superhuman AI and a non-biological definition of life that Max is working with. The author also discusses the difference between hardware and software, and the resulting in substrate independence of minds. And he describes the irrelevance and irrelevance of consciousness for the future of AI.