Consciousness
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YNH: Well, I certainly think that the most interesting question today in science is the question of
consciousness
and the mind.
We are getting better and better in understanding the brain and intelligence, but we are not getting much better in understanding the mind and
consciousness.
People often confuse intelligence and consciousness, especially in places like Silicon Valley, which is understandable, because in humans, they go together.
What's happening today in places like Silicon Valley is that we are creating artificial intelligence but not artificial
consciousness.
There has been an amazing development in computer intelligence over the last 50 years, and exactly zero development in computer consciousness, and there is no indication that computers are going to become conscious anytime soon.
So first of all, if there is some cosmic role for consciousness, it's not unique to Homo sapiens.
Germany has no
consciousness.
If it means marching, well maybe marching to raise consciousness, that seems fine.
We just dismiss it out of our
consciousness.
How does
consciousness
happen?
Answering this question is so important because
consciousness
for each of us is all there is.
And I think this because my research is telling me that
consciousness
has less to do with pure intelligence and more to do with our nature as living and breathing organisms.
Now, you might have heard that we know nothing about how the brain and body give rise to
consciousness.
All of us together trying to understand how
consciousness
happens and what happens when it goes wrong.
I'd like you to think about
consciousness
in the way that we've come to think about life.
So as with life, so with
consciousness.
Once we start explaining its properties in terms of things happening inside brains and bodies, the apparently insoluble mystery of what
consciousness
is should start to fade away.
What are the properties of
consciousness?
What should a science of
consciousness
try to explain?
Well, for today I'd just like to think of
consciousness
in two different ways.
The lead character in this inner movie, and probably the aspect of
consciousness
we all cling to most tightly.
And ... when the end of
consciousness
comes, there's nothing to be afraid of.
Maybe at best, upload your
consciousness
to a silicon chip.
And then your
consciousness
goes, "You're an adult.
It's our ability to write things down, our language and our
consciousness.
And again, I don't want to talk about consciousness, I want to talk about it just as if it was a little bacteria, or a volvox, which is what that organism is.
That experience is what we call
consciousness.
But where does
consciousness
come from?
One recent theory is that
consciousness
is the brain’s imperfect picture of its own activity.
More extensive damage to the network can sometimes lead to a vegetative state, with no sign of
consciousness.
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