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Max Tegmark
Life 3.0
They both conclude that the hard problem of consciousness
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is BS.
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On one hand, you have some people like Daniel Dennett
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who say that consciousness is just BS
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because consciousness is the same thing as intelligence.
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There's no difference.
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So anything which acts conscious is conscious,
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just like we are.
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And then there are also a lot of people,
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including many top AI researchers I know,
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who say, oh, consciousness is just bullshit
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because, of course, machines can never be conscious.
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They're always going to be zombies.
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You never have to feel guilty about how you treat them.
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And then there's a third group of people,
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including Giulio Tononi, for example,
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and Krzysztof Koch and a number of others.
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I would put myself also in this middle camp
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who say that actually some information processing
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is conscious and some is not.
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So let's find the equation which can be used
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to determine which it is.
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And I think we've just been a little bit lazy,
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kind of running away from this problem for a long time.
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It's been almost taboo to even mention the C word
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in a lot of circles because,
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but we should stop making excuses.
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This is a science question and there are ways
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we can even test any theory that makes predictions for this.
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And coming back to this helper robot,
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I mean, so you said you'd want your helper robot
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to certainly act conscious and treat you,
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like have conversations with you and stuff.
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I think so.
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But wouldn't you, would you feel,
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would you feel a little bit creeped out
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if you realized that it was just a glossed up tape recorder,
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you know, that was just zombie and was a faking emotion?
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Would you prefer that it actually had an experience
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or would you prefer that it's actually
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not experiencing anything so you feel,
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you don't have to feel guilty about what you do to it?
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It's such a difficult question because, you know,
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it's like when you're in a relationship and you say,
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well, I love you.
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And the other person said, I love you back.
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It's like asking, well, do they really love you back
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or are they just saying they love you back?
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Don't you really want them to actually love you?
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It's hard to, it's hard to really know the difference
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between everything seeming like there's consciousness
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present, there's intelligence present,
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there's affection, passion, love,
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and it actually being there.
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I'm not sure, do you have?
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But like, can I ask you a question about this?
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Like to make it a bit more pointed.
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So Mass General Hospital is right across the river, right?
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Yes.
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Suppose you're going in for a medical procedure
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and they're like, you know, for anesthesia,
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what we're going to do is we're going to give you
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muscle relaxants so you won't be able to move
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and you're going to feel excruciating pain
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during the whole surgery,
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but you won't be able to do anything about it.
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But then we're going to give you this drug
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that erases your memory of it.
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Would you be cool about that?
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What's the difference that you're conscious about it
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or not if there's no behavioral change, right?
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Right, that's a really, that's a really clear way to put it.
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That's, yeah, it feels like in that sense,
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experiencing it is a valuable quality.
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So actually being able to have subjective experiences,
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at least in that case, is valuable.
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And I think we humans have a little bit
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of a bad track record also of making
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these self serving arguments
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that other entities aren't conscious.
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You know, people often say,
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oh, these animals can't feel pain.
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It's okay to boil lobsters because we ask them
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if it hurt and they didn't say anything.
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And now there was just a paper out saying,
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lobsters do feel pain when you boil them
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and they're banning it in Switzerland.
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And we did this with slaves too often and said,
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oh, they don't mind.
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They don't maybe aren't conscious
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or women don't have souls or whatever.
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So I'm a little bit nervous when I hear people
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just take as an axiom that machines
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can't have experience ever.
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I think this is just a really fascinating science question
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is what it is.
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Let's research it and try to figure out
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what it is that makes the difference
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between unconscious intelligent behavior
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and conscious intelligent behavior.
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