Quote from Da Amber San on August 14, 2024, 7:10 pm

Source: World Science Festival, Premiered July 19, 2024

Renowned researchers David Chalmers and Anil Seth join Brian Greene to explore how far science and philosophy have gone toward explaining the greatest of all mysteries, consciousness--and whether artificially intelligent systems may one day possess it.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

Participants: David Chalmers Anil Seth Moderator: Brian Greene

00:00 - Introduction 02:35 - Participant Introductions 03:50 - Will an Artificial System Ever Become Conscious? 05:32 - The Hard Problem of Consciousness 08:32 - Thought Experiment: Mary and the Nature of Conscious Experience 13:28 - The Hard Problem and The Real Problem of Consciousness 21:53 - The Brain as a Prediction Machine 25:41 - Possible Solutions to the Hard Problem 33:15 - Will AI Systems Become Conscious and How Will We Know? 40:11 - Is Human Consciousness the Only One Example of Conscious-like Experience? 42:19 - The Future of Creating Consciousness and the Ethical Questions