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Prof. Anil Seth, Chair of Computational Neuroscience with University of Sussex explains why AI will never human–like sentience or real self–awareness

Source: Conscious Machines May Never Be Possible | WIRED Photo by Maximalfocus on Unsplash Here is a WIRED article written by none other than Prof. Dr. Anil Seth, who is professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex. I have heard before by other experts in the field of neurobiology that consciousness requires for a nervous system to be present as in humans or…

Is Consciousness Everywhere? | The MIT Press Reader

Source: Is Consciousness Everywhere? | The MIT Press Reader I recently came across this article on a Facebook group I’ve joined some time ago. It had me think about the assumptions going into Prof. Koch’s article. Before I do, I find it necessary to look at the very meaning of the words we use to discuss these concepts. Coming from a degree in linguistics with a focus on semantics in my thesis,…

Anil Seth: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | TED Talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_your_brain_hallucinates_your_conscious_reality?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare#t-1007673 Holy sh.. there’s a mouthful and then some! Turns the whole consciousness debate upside down, I think. Indeed a radical approach. But a very conclusive and plausible one to my ears.