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Consciousness

Jan 25, 2023

Consciousness as emergent feeling from a Society of Minds

Biological Consciousness is not a centralized system but more likely an emerging “feeling” from a Society of Minds.

According to Orchestrated Objective Reduction we can’t create consciousness in current computers, we need quantum computers ?

Roger Penrose says that consciousness emerges from understanding1 and that we don’t understand understanding, that it’s a missing feature in our computers, GPT32 generates human-like text but it’s purely computational.

Footnotes

  1. Roger Penrose talking about consciousness on Closer To Truth Youtube channel

  2. Language Models are Few-Shot Learners

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