Today the bros talk about a monumental, if flawed, effort to present a coherent argument against the idea that “Strong Ai” or the idea that consciousness arises solely from algorithmic processes (and that therefore the human brain is in essence a computer and the mind is a program). Does he succeed? Maybe. Probably not. But the process is very interesting.
Bibliography:
- Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Re: physicalism, qualia, individuated sentience, Einstein-brains
- J.R. Lucas: Minds Machines and Godel
- Searle: Minds Brains and Programs
Re: Chinese Room
-A Historical Overview of Ai Winters
Re: Framing effect, “Ai Effect”
-Newman and Nagel: "Gödel's Proof"
Re: mathematical incompleteness
-Wallace: Consider The Lobster, "Authority and American Usage"
Re: Constructing realities, being and consciousness
-Hegel: Example Of The Hegelian Dialectic"
Duality of being and nothing, dialectic processes, sublation
-Christian: Big History
Re: Watchmaker fallacy, God of Gaps, philosophy of knowledge
-Assefa: Tiling the Plane
Recent discovery of infinite non-periodic tiling shapes