The Importance of Consciousness

Descartes says that in order to be subject to illusion, his mind must exist. This is the famous Coquito Ergo Somm. It's a statement of where psychological certainty becomes indistinguishable from logical certainty. The scientific revolution did was take all of that contact out of the world. I'm even willing to say it's not even in the math. It's just here. So these are devastating problems. But if you're interested in this, and if you are doing something work on it, and some of the scientific theoretical work I do is an attempt to contribute towards the development of AI, you need to pay attention," he said.