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Leila's avatar

my brain is capable of creating my made-up feeling of being a solid self by filling in the gaps btwn sensory inputs

yes, i need to go for a walk too!

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Eric's avatar

Thanksgiving morning I heard a World Science Festival interview titled "Can Models of Human Consciousness Enhance AI Capabilities?" I understood it better having had listened to this. "Global Workspace" is a similar model to "Attention Schema Theory" .

When asked if possibly creating conscious super-intelligence gave him pause, the scientist said . "It may help Science or humanity and so on..." then with a dismissive wave of his hand "BUT...."

27:40 of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXlfCY4m9jU

End of the world stuff Direct from metaphorical Dr. Frankenstein. It's happening at an accelerating rate. You heard it here first.

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Dan Logan's avatar

Thanks for the link Eric. I don't know about the end of the world, but definitely the end of our current way of looking at the world at the very least.

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