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Check out my book Being You, and my prize-winning essay The Mythology of Conscious AI.
In one of the least surprising but most deserved @NobelPrize awards in recent history - many congratulations to @KarlDeisseroth, and to his co-laureates Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel. This year it’s all optogenetics 🧠
🙏🏽 @TaylorLorenz. As a neuroscientist & consciousness researcher working at the interface with AI and philosophy, I'm definitely one of the skeptics. IMO there are extremely good reasons why current AI is not and will not be conscious. And I'm certainly not the only one. See
The essay by @anilkseth linked to in this post is worth reading in full.
It’s one of the best explanations I’ve seen of why computational functionalist views of biological brains fall short and, as a result, why it’s very unlikely silicon-based AI models will ever be conscious.