When a computer can have a headache, I’ll say it is conscious.

Compare the number of comments on this video to one that describes Searle's Chinese room argument. People love Searle's argument, because most people hate the the thought that computers might someday be conscious!

Computer consciousness ought to be even more certain than human consciousness. With humans we have to trust that they have inner lives and real feelings because we cannot experience their subjective experience, but computers can be studied far more closely. We ought to be able to witness a transcript of every thought and every feeling of the machine to get a far deeper perspective on its consciousness than we can ever have with a human. We could compare its inner life with our own inner lives in a way that we never can with humans.

The volume is low. The topic extremely interesting as well as Kurzweil.

Emergence is the term that is used a lot to explain things. And nobody knows what it means.

Consciousness is not understanding something, it's experiencing anything.

I love watching CTT videos, but you can barely hear what they are saying, the volume is so low.

To be conscious, computers and robots may need to evaluate and implement time factors in relation to surroundings?

Goddammit, turn the volume up!

Would the simple rules for Chinese be able to provide emotional elements for a response in addition to the words / language?

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Running on "meat machines"! Thats very deep! I think Ray is correct in his assessments. If evolution is to go on, regardless of spiritual beleifs, robotics and computer driven conscientiousness does seem to be the next step. I also beleive WHEN that happens we will know our God. As some philosophers claim, we are our own Gods, we will finally know that we are!!

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Here's a question: Is a simulation of a "conscious" being conscious?

Will "it" have headaches? ... fall in love? ... be afraid of something?

Consciousness is real, but I think people put it on a pedestal it is not uniform throughout time. Consciousness is a state of mind, and the assumption that we remain the same person because we remember who we used to be. Many believe that there is only one you, and that if there are two, one must be an impostor. The truth is far more simple... if you were to get your mind copied 5 days from now and for whatever reason, your body remained alive and retained all prior function, you would likely jump to the conclusion that "One would be me, and the other would be a copy." The truth is, neither of them are you as you are now. Both would have 5 extra days of memories, one set of your memories would move on to a new platform while another remains in your body and both parties have equal rights to those memories. One would bee upset because it is still mortal, and the other would feel empathetic. At the moment of creation, the "copy" has more in common with future "real you" than the present you, mentally.

Maybe intelligence can existence without consciousness? Maybe compositors will not become consciousness despite getting super intelligent.

The question that divides us is whether you can transfer your consciousness to a computer. I say no. Perhaps in the future you will be able to transfer a copy of your consciousness that will believe it is you.

Okay..I get it. Any deeper exercise for this guy is to compare everything to computers. Life and computation are not interchangeable.

Animals are more conscious than humans, of some things.

Test for conscious experience in a dubious entity: I got a joke: Guy can't start his computer. What's the problem? I think we got a open in the circuit -- no juice. Ok. Better check your "O-N / O-F-F" switch. Yuck to be, or no yuck to be -- that is the punch line. If the android "can't get it", there is a good chance it is possibly "conscious". If it does, there is a good chance it is "not conscious". If it always says it does, or says it doesn't, or if there is a seeming inconsistency in responses for a sample of jokes, or the answers seem too random, it is highly probable that it is "not conscious". Of course, it could tell a "joke" -- but almost anything follows from that; and "you" could just lie in a number of ways anyway -- or pull the plug. Or threaten to do so.

To understand Chinese you need to be in a Chinese culture.

dude is obsessed with Chinese and never lists anything specific that is conscious.

anyone else notice how well shaven Ray is?

"Consciousness is the great mystery of inner awareness." Nope, it's neurological, and don't make it mysterious because it shows you're too eagerly looking for spookiness in the universe!