Noam Chomsky on Panpsychism, Mind Body Problem, and Are Computers Conscious?

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:48 [Joscha Bach] What is the most important unsolved problem in cognitive science?

00:05:07 [Joscha Bach ]In which ways did you update your thinking on AI in the last five years?

00:09:29 [Joscha Bach] Posibilities and approaches for brains & minds to reach humal-like intelligence in today's neural network

00:10:56 [Joscha Bach] Importance of consciousness in building systems that learn, think and create at a human level

00:12:26 [Joscha Bach] Are you still a mysterian?

00:15:36 [Prof. Donald Hoffman] Is spacetime really doomed?

00:16:19 [Prof. Donald Hoffman] Letting go of spacetime and its affects on the mind-body problem

00:23:53 [Prof. Avi Loeb] Probability of AI overcoming human intelligence and establishing their own society

00:27:20 [Karl Friston] Prospects of machines (i.e., sentinent artifacts) talking to each other - or us?

00:31:00 [Prof. Tim Maudlin] Is goodman's new riddle of induction historically accurate?

00:36:30 [Prof. Philip Goff] Intrinsic nature of matter and panpsychism

00:42:30 [anonymous] Do you have a resolution of the Liar’s Paradox or Raven Paradox?

00:42:55 [anonymous] Axioms of a language and the meaning of the words

00:48:06 [anonymous] Is there any relation between language and extended phenotype?

00:49:38 [anonymous] Our obsession with turing test and its influence on behaviorism and consiousness

00:51:52 [anonymous] Can ill-defined mathematical statements and physics concepts have meaning?

00:55:24 [Norman Wildberger] Is there any linguistic evidence for universal, or almost universal, innate mathematical notions in humans?

00:57:01 [anonymous] Vastness of the term "grammar" and its generalization