Artificial Consciousness: Edelman vs Buddha
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I am seriously intrigued by the popularity of Buddhist thought, both here (on Twine) and elsewhere (friends & family).
I read about sentient beings living "in awareness" ("we are in awareness like we are in space or in time") rather than the opposite (consciousness as emergent). Some of us seem to take seriously the idea that we may well live in something similar to the Matrix, a world of dream, of delusion. This is sometimes presented as an a priori argument against the possibility of building conscious machines. For some reasons that I haven't quite grasped yet, awareness is seen as inherently inaccessible to computers: we live in awareness but machines don't, and won't, because they just can't...
In my view, spirituality is a natural - but misguided - human response to aeternal basic philosophical questions about the meaning of life.
I started this twine to gather articles, posts and comments relevant to this discussion, both from the materialist line (Edelman-Damasio-Koch-Tononi-Hawkins-Kurzweil, etc.) and from the Buddha line. Please do not hesitate to contribute.
I read about sentient beings living "in awareness" ("we are in awareness like we are in space or in time") rather than the opposite (consciousness as emergent). Some of us seem to take seriously the idea that we may well live in something similar to the Matrix, a world of dream, of delusion. This is sometimes presented as an a priori argument against the possibility of building conscious machines. For some reasons that I haven't quite grasped yet, awareness is seen as inherently inaccessible to computers: we live in awareness but machines don't, and won't, because they just can't...
In my view, spirituality is a natural - but misguided - human response to aeternal basic philosophical questions about the meaning of life.
I started this twine to gather articles, posts and comments relevant to this discussion, both from the materialist line (Edelman-Damasio-Koch-Tononi-Hawkins-Kurzweil, etc.) and from the Buddha line. Please do not hesitate to contribute.
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All In The Mind: You are NOT a Self! Thomas Metzinger...An interview with Thomas Metzinger one of the worlds leading Neuro-philosopher's on ABC Radio National's All In The Mind blog for the show of the same name. Metzinger has recently released a book named "The Ego Tunnel" in which he proposes that there is in fact no Self and discusses the ethical ...
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Me Versus Copy of Me: Transhumanism's Dilemma by Ron Blechner | Second TenseTranshumanism: " Transhumanism is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities." It is not a philosophy, as it may sound like some reaction to Humanism. Its beliefs range from ...
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Can Bots Feel Joy? | h+ MagazineWill machines ever really feel, in the same sense that humans do? This is a separate question from whether machines can be intelligent, or whether they can act like they feel. The question is whether machines — if suitably constructed and programmed — can have awareness, passion, subjective ...
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A "Complex" Theory of Consciousness: Scientific AmericanDo you think that your newest ac quisition, a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner that traces out its unpredictable paths on your living room floor, is conscious? What about that bee that hovers above your marmalade-covered breakfast toast? Or the newborn who finally fell asleep after being suckled? ...
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Neuroscience articles indexParticularly read: Robosemantics- (all articles are PDF)wildcat added 4 months ago
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89Philosophy Now | Minds and Computers: An Introduction to AI by Matt CarterWhat is it like to be a computer?François Dongier added 4 months ago
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89Philosophy Now | Minds and Computers: An Introduction to AI by Matt Carter"Computer programs operate on purely ‘syntactic’ features – ultimately speaking, they depend upon the physical form of the inputs, transformations and outputs. By contrast, human thought is always a thought about something, it represents something, it has a content. It displays what philosophers ...François Dongier added 4 months ago
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89Shunya's Notes: The Dearth of Artificial IntelligenceVery nice article. Nice pic too, isn't it?François Dongier added 4 months ago
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