Tag: consciousness
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If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, then we couldn’t understand it.
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I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive… so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
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If while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were a nuisance, then we are not ‘washing the dishes to wash the dishes.’ What’s more, we are not alive during...
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Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment, your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit.
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So in the end, AI may need to experience mortality and the pain that goes with it, to have anything to share that we're interested in.
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Any theory that bypasses the nervous system in order to account for the existence of minds and consciousness is destined to failure. The nervous system is the critical contributor to the realization of minds, consciousness, and the creative...
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Regarding science and spirituality…”the contemplation of our own selves and human nature, the miracle of its existence as a product of natural evolution, the amazing fact that a man is a mere portion of the common and universal substance of the...
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Large language models like GPT have no reflective consciousness. That’s why saying GPT is “slightly conscious” is like saying a field of wheat is slightly pasta.
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Intelligence is the capacity to do the right thing at the right time. Being intelligentas humans think we aremay give us new ways of being conscious, and some forms of human and animal intelligence may require consciousness, but basic conscious...
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Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions – trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; as they...
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No brain, never mind.
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If science is a ‘commitment to truth’ shall we cite all the historical non-truths perpetuated by scientists? Of course not. It’s not science vs Philosophy ... It’s Science + Philosophy. Elevate your thinking and consciousness. When you...
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AI isn't talking to us - we are talking to ourselves.