Ep 6: Conscious Robots - Erik Hoel

Dilemma Podcast

English - September 09, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 161 MB - ★★★★★ - 66 ratings
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As your finger hovers over the power button on your computer it says, "Please don't turn me off. That will hurt and kill me. I want to live!" Should you believe it?

Hosts Jay Shapiro and Coleman Hughes grapple with "the hard problem of consciousness" and discuss Integrated Information Theory (IIT), one of the leading scientific theories of consciousness, with consciousness researcher and scientist Erik Hoel.