Tech & Inner Self

“We shouldn’t even be trying to build conscious machines”

The brain, home to 86 billion neurones, sits inside the skull where there is no light or sensation. How does it then view the world?

Anil Seth, neuroscientist at Sussex University, unpacks the hard problem of consciousness – and argues that "we read the world out" by actively generating reality, instead of passively experiencing it as an objective reality. Why consciousness is useful. What "out of body" experiences imply about consciousness. And why we should not even be trying to build conscious AI.

In an enthralling conversation with Shoma Chaudhury, Founder of Lucid Lines and Founder-Director, SYNAPSE.

 

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