I've listened twice thus far. [Disclaimer: I only have two brain cells; they fill up really fast!] I plan to listen again, again. For now: main take-away for me is to be humble! If nothing else, the practice of engaging with all beings as if they mattered will contribute to my further humanization. Also, made me think of Martin Buber's "I-it," "I-You" and "I-Thou." Thanks, Vince!
Sorry Vince, but I disagree pretty strongly about AI sentience. And I'd hardly categorize that position as "nihilistic." We have no good reasons to take seriously the hypothesis that private consciousness can correlate with silicon computers. I won't make a lengthy argument here.
To quote the philosopher (analytic idealist) and computer engineer Bernardo Kastrup (who I'd refer you to on this and many other issues): "As per the so-called ‘hard problem of consciousness,’ it is at least very difficult to see what miracle could make instructions executed in different orders, or more and faster components of the same kind [as AI algorithms run on parallel information processing cores of the kind we have had for many years in our PCs] lead to the extraordinary and intrinsically discontinuous jump from unconsciousness to consciousness. The onus of argument here is on the believers, not the skeptics."
I've listened twice thus far. [Disclaimer: I only have two brain cells; they fill up really fast!] I plan to listen again, again. For now: main take-away for me is to be humble! If nothing else, the practice of engaging with all beings as if they mattered will contribute to my further humanization. Also, made me think of Martin Buber's "I-it," "I-You" and "I-Thou." Thanks, Vince!
Sorry Vince, but I disagree pretty strongly about AI sentience. And I'd hardly categorize that position as "nihilistic." We have no good reasons to take seriously the hypothesis that private consciousness can correlate with silicon computers. I won't make a lengthy argument here.
To quote the philosopher (analytic idealist) and computer engineer Bernardo Kastrup (who I'd refer you to on this and many other issues): "As per the so-called ‘hard problem of consciousness,’ it is at least very difficult to see what miracle could make instructions executed in different orders, or more and faster components of the same kind [as AI algorithms run on parallel information processing cores of the kind we have had for many years in our PCs] lead to the extraordinary and intrinsically discontinuous jump from unconsciousness to consciousness. The onus of argument here is on the believers, not the skeptics."
RS