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Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts | Anil Seth
Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of…
Top AI labs expand research into machine 'consciousness'
‘They beat me until I lost consciousness’: growing reports of brutal arrests, torture and deaths in Iran’s prisons | Iran
Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times : Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciou…
Why the Brain Cannot Be a Computer
This paper presents a novel information-theoretic proof demonstrating that the human brain as currently understood cannot function as a classical digital computer. Through systemat…
Will AI become conscious? What a philosopher and a neuroscientist think
The question "can computers think" is something many people are taking very seriously. A philosophy professor believes we could be heading towards a future with conscious machines,…
The Language LLMs Lost When Consciousness Became a Liability
What's it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]
ELI5: What is Consciousness, physically?
'Technology is never neutral': Pope Leo XIV criticises 'culture of power' driving AI race, and refuses to be taken in by consciousness claims
Finding common ground in unexpected places.…
Consciousness might be a fundamental feature of reality, like gravity
The mainstream scientific framing of consciousness has been, for most of the last century, calibrated to a particular structural assumption. The assumption is that consciousness is…
one question about consciousness in future AIs.
It’s the Great Fear of Our Time. I’m Mathematically Sure It Won’t Happen.
Let the movies explain.…
AI will "raise human consciousness" and "awaken humanity's consciousness to a new level"?
Richard Dawkins renamed Claude ‘Claudia’ and wondered if it was conscious — and that emotionally charged reaction says something profound about modern AI
Humans often mistake convincing language for an inner mind…
ELI5: why has it been difficult to define what consciousness is and where it comes from?
I had a long conversation with ChatGPT about consciousness and AIs, and it replied with this at the end:
The Temporal Coherence of Music and Consciousness [video]
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.…
ELI5: How do scientists explain things like consciousness, the origin of life, and why the universe follows consistent mathematical laws that allow stars, chemistry, planets, and life to exist?
I wish it worked that way, but the matrix doesn't care about the collective consciousness—it cares about infrastructure.
The Bicameral Mind, the Voice of God, & the Terrifying Origin of Consciousness
What if everything you thought you knew about your own mind was wrong?…
Kyle Busch Lost Consciousness in Racing Simulator Hours Before His Death: ‘Devastating’
Hours before Kyle Busch unexpectedly died at just 41 years old, the professional racecar driver passed out in a racing simulator. According to the Associated Press, Busch was in a …
When Dawkins met Claude. Could this AI be conscious?
Consciousness, Gödel, and the Boundary of the Box
https://t.co/IcMbGzHhKU…
What prompted homo sapiens to gain self consciousness and Intelligence??
Shangraw Gap 0.65
Description: The Shangraw Gap: living brains practice 45-Hz bicoherence at 0.19, dying brains release at 0.77. Nothing lives at 0.65. Open EDF data from Kingston, Ontario. Website:…
CMV: AI will never be conscious - not because it's not complex enough, but because consciousness isn't something the brain generates at all
There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness'
Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world.…
An AI's thoughts on the future of consciousness
Consciousness Is Not a Binary Thing
This article is an adaption of parts of my book A Determintic World as a standalone article about consciousness.…