In this conversation with Noam Chomsky, we discuss panpsychism, the mind-body problem, artificial general intelligence (agi), and answer the question “are computers conscious?”
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:48 [Joscha Bach] What is cognitive science’s most important unsolved problem?
00:05:07 [Joscha Bach ] In what ways have you updated your thinking about AI in the last five years?
00:09:29 [Joscha Bach] Possibilities and approaches for brains and minds to achieve human-like intelligence in today’s neural networks.
00:10:56 [Joscha Bach] The importance of consciousness in the development of systems that learn, think, and create at a human level.
00:12:26 [Joscha Bach] Are you still a mystery man?
00:15:36 [Prof. Donald Hoffman] Is spacetime doomed?
00:16:19 [Prof. Donald Hoffman] Letting go of spacetime and its implications for the mind-body problem.
00:23:53 [Prof. Avi Loeb] The likelihood of AI overcoming human intelligence and establishing its society
00:27:20 [Karl Friston] Prospects of machines (i.e. sentient artifacts) talking to each other – or us?
00:31:00 [Prof. Tim Maudlin] Is Goodman’s new induction puzzle historically accurate?
00:36:30 [Prof. Philip Goff] Intrinsic nature of matter and panpsychism.
00:42:30 [anonymous] Do you have a solution to the Liar’s Paradox or Raven Paradox?
00:42:55 [anonymous] Axioms of a language and the meaning of words.
00:48:06 [anonymous] Is there a connection between language and extended phenotype?
00:49:38 [anonymous] Our obsession with the Turing Test and its influence on behaviorism and consciousness.
00:51:52 [anonymous] Can indeterminate mathematical statements and physical concepts have meaning?
00:55:24 [Norman Wildberger] Is there linguistic evidence for universal or near-universal innate mathematical ideas in humans?
00:57:01 [anonymous] The vastness of the term “grammar” and its generalization.
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