Sam Harris - The Simulation Argument + What Is Life?

[Trailer1220]

Computers will never become conscious. Think about it, A.I. would have already taken over the universe if it had reached singularity anywhere.

[ukmoore]

anyone know where the Lawrence Krauss portion of the video (at the end)

is from?

[DelightfulTyrant]

Really? The most powerful super computers in the world run off of Mac OS? Shenanigans have been called.

[dfpolis]

The idea that making the same form in other substrates that we have in the brain will give rise to consciousness is not a falsifiable hypothesis. Instead, it is an example of what Frazer called sympathetic magic in his Golden Bough. Other examples are the idea that painting game on cave walls will cause the game to come or sticking pins in voodoo dolls will case pain in real people. This is an ancient, but invalid mode of thought. Peace, Dennis

[COSMICSMI2LE]

Science has fads just as anything else does, the current scientific fad is that the universe is fully automatic and consciousness is a result of different organizations of matter. Computers may eventually have human intelligence eventually and we might as well say they are conscious but this does not solve the problem of qualia and the experience of self. I have an intuition that computers will never be able to "experience" the color red or feel actual pain.j

[symbian7]

@COSMICSMI2LE We can't really say for sure that a computer will never gain awarness. Matter is reality itself simulated in a variety of way's. Perhaps reality has some form of sense in itself, but gains consciousness of this fact in higher orders of complexity. All forces and by extension all qualia are relative. We will I believe have conscious computers. We are reality experiencing ourselves. Reality is relative.

[DerMacDuff]

i like the music :)

[sirchompsalot]

Take music off

[cagandredbeard]

what is that annoying music in the background?

[magnusjsolberg]

@cagandredbeard That's Iggy Pop - The Passenger. It's my way of trying to make science "cool". Kind of like when christians say "Jesus was a cool dude!".

[cagandredbeard]

@magnusjsolberg Completely distracting I'm afraid, couldn't even watch past the first 15 seconds.

[spacecowboy95]

@magnusjsolberg utterly stupid use of music. pointless and distracting. well done!

[magnusjsolberg]

@spacecowboy95 Looks like I'll have to re-upload this without the music :)

[dpowens]

@magnusjsolberg Yes please!

[orchoose]

@magnusjsolberg ÿou should and get big porce of intuition soemwhere

[skdjhfkdhfa]

@magnusjsolberg Yes, definitely. Thumbs down :(