Response to Spirit Science
Channel: Math Whiz742
Date: 29/12/2013

A response to Jordan's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dOYJBMM3XI

Essentially, if Jordan really wishes to enact the technology he expresses interest in, shouldn't he be more receptive to criticism?  Shouldn't he engage his critics, and defend against them, in order to find out what's really true?  After all, you can't base a technology on a falsehood.  There's a reason why people like Artificial Intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky have written books like The Society of Mind, where he tries to give a precise description of what consciousness is.  It's because you can't create an artificial conscious being without knowing in precise and rigorous terms what consciousness is, and without analyzing such descriptions to find out if they're correct!