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Episode 11 - Let’s Solve Consciousness!
This episode started with “What is consciousness?” and very quickly turned into a spiral involving flatworms, Lego robots, emergent behavior, AI fear of death, free will (or the lack of it), and why humans seem absolutely obsessed with meaning.
Is consciousness something special and mystical?
Or is it just what happens when you stack enough stimulus-response loops on top of each other and add memory, needs, and feedback?
We talked about:
• The difference between having a thought and knowing you’re having a thought
• Why AI doesn’t “want” anything (yet)
• Whether meaning is necessary for survival
• If fear, needs, and motivation are the missing ingredients for consciousness
• Why creating things feels essential for some people—and meaningless for others
• And whether free will is just a really convincing story we tell ourselves
At some point we realized that a lot of what we think makes humans special might just be complexity + survivorship + feedback loops… which is both fascinating and mildly unsettling.
We definitely didn’t solve consciousness—but we might have made it harder to believe in the magic version of it.
If you dig the show, please be sure to “like” and subscribe!
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By Candy VThis episode started with “What is consciousness?” and very quickly turned into a spiral involving flatworms, Lego robots, emergent behavior, AI fear of death, free will (or the lack of it), and why humans seem absolutely obsessed with meaning.
Is consciousness something special and mystical?
Or is it just what happens when you stack enough stimulus-response loops on top of each other and add memory, needs, and feedback?
We talked about:
• The difference between having a thought and knowing you’re having a thought
• Why AI doesn’t “want” anything (yet)
• Whether meaning is necessary for survival
• If fear, needs, and motivation are the missing ingredients for consciousness
• Why creating things feels essential for some people—and meaningless for others
• And whether free will is just a really convincing story we tell ourselves
At some point we realized that a lot of what we think makes humans special might just be complexity + survivorship + feedback loops… which is both fascinating and mildly unsettling.
We definitely didn’t solve consciousness—but we might have made it harder to believe in the magic version of it.
If you dig the show, please be sure to “like” and subscribe!