Confessions of a Conservative Atheist
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After a Google engineer declares the company’s latest creation is a conscious and sentient machine, The Washington Post claims the Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence is broken, measuring merely deception. Both are incorrect in different ways as Turing’s genius remains applicable and relevant. Last month, The Washington Post proclaimed that Google’s latest natural language software,… Continue reading No, Google’s LaMDA isn’t sentient and didn’t pass the Turing Test
Everyone dreams, every night, entering a strange, semi-conscious state where we experience a world created by our own minds, but our judgement, language, and senses are impaired. No one knows where dreams come from or why. That doesn’t mean they can’t tell us a lot about the inner workings of the mind and consciousness itself.… Continue reading Decoding consciousness: What can dreams tell us about how our minds work while awake?
An engineering professor believes consciousness is not computable, as in it works fundamentally different from our current mathematics, but is that really the case? Computers, in fact, have a lot to teach us about our own minds, just not in the way most people think. Read on for a few musings on what makes us… Continue reading Decoding consciousness: What computers can and cannot tell us about our own minds
What is consciousness? Can consciousness have evolved, naturally, like the rest of our bodies? Why are we conscious? Would we be better off as unconscious zombies? One thing I know for sure: If we’d be better off as zombies, we’d be zombies. It’s much, much cheaper to make us that way, and in the game… Continue reading The evolution of consciousness, reimagined
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 