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Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning Won't Fix It
Professor Mark Bishop does not think that computers can be conscious or have phenomenological states of consciousness unless we're willing to accept panpsychism. Panpsychism postulates that distinctions between intelligences are largely arbitrary. The church Turing hypothesis has triggered an explosion of interest in biologically plausible neural networks. We had Dr Simon Stringer on the show last week talking about the spiking dynamics, the temporal binding circuits which emerge when you create some of these biologically inspired neural networks. Just the reading list we got from Mark today will keep us busy for the next year.