#thomasfuchs

🧠 Brain vs. Computer💻: Why This Analogy Is Misleading 🚫 We love to understand things by recreating them. Our modern technology is the measure of all things: what we can build, we believe we can also understand. But when it comes to our brain, we hit a limit that we often ignore. We tend to view the brain as complex hardware and consciousness as software. But in our new Zoomposium, Prof. Dr. Thomas Fuchs fundamentally challenges this perspective. Why the comparison falls short: • Irreducible: A complex life process cannot simply be broken down into data and algorithms. Consciousness is not a “program” running on biological circuits. • The Embodiment Paradigm: We do not think with a “brain in a jar.” Our cognition is inseparably linked to our bodies. We are not “data processors,” but living beings in an environment. • The trap of feasibility: If we view humans solely as machines, we reduce them to manipulable data points. This fails to recognize the uniqueness of our lived existence. In our interview, we discuss the following topics with Prof. Fuchs, among others: 👉 Why neuroconstructivism is reaching its limits. 👉 Whether machines can ever truly develop consciousness—or whether we are falling for a technological illusion here. 👉 The danger of confusing intelligence (data processing) with consciousness (experience). It’s time for a new paradigm: moving away from a mechanistic view toward an “embodiment of consciousness.” What do you think? Is our mind really just the sum of neural computations, or is there something that no computer could ever capture? Share your thoughts in the comments👇 📺 Interview: https://youtu.be/1ouxs6P3Enc 📎Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/11/20/das-verkoerperte-bewusstsein/

• and the question of what actually defines a human being. 📺 Interview: https://youtu.be/1ouxs6P3Enc 📎Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/11/20/das-verkoerperte-bewusstsein/

The conversation covers topics such as: • the concept of embodied consciousness • the role of the body in perception and decision-making • possible alternatives to the dominant neuroconstructivism • the famous Hard Problem of Consciousness • and the question of whether artificial intelligence can ever develop consciousness An exciting dialogue at the intersection of philosophy, psychiatry, and cognitive science on one of the biggest questions of our time: How does consciousness arise—and what role does it play in our actions? 🎥 Interview: https://youtu.be/1ouxs6P3Enc 📎Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/11/20/das-verkoerperte-bewusstsein/

🧠 💪 Brain & Muscles – How Consciousness Controls Our Speech 🗣️ How do we actually manage to speak? As we form words, our lips, tongue, and larynx move with high precision – without us knowing which individual muscle fibers need to contract and how. And yet it works. This seemingly self-evident phenomenon points to a fascinating interplay: consciousness not only accompanies neural processes, but also integrates, organizes, and controls them. In a top-down process, countless micro-processes in the brain and muscles are coordinated into a meaningful overall execution. Language thus emerges as a physically embedded action – not as a purely mechanical product of isolated brain activity. In the Zoomposium with Thomas Fuchs, we discuss precisely this perspective of “embodied consciousness.” As a psychiatrist and philosopher, Fuchs advocates a paradigm shift: away from reductionist neuroconstructivism, toward an understanding of the brain as a relational organ—embedded in the body, environment, and social interaction. What does this mean for the hard problem of consciousness? Can artificial intelligence develop consciousness—or do machines lack this very bodily embedding? And what does this say about our self-image in the age of big data and digitalization? A conversation about language, corporeality, and the question of how consciousness organizes neural processes—and is not merely generated by them. 🎥 Interview: https://youtu.be/1ouxs6P3Enc 📎Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/11/20/das-verkoerperte-bewusstsein/

🪞🧠 Why self-awareness is the key to artificial intelligence 🔑🤖 What does it actually mean to be intelligent? Since the Dartmouth Conference in the 1950s, the term artificial intelligence has shaped our thinking. But as Prof. Dr. Thomas Fuchs points out, something crucial is often overlooked: 👉 Intelligence without self-awareness ultimately remains borrowed intelligence. Machines can appear astonishingly powerful—smart, efficient, even creative. But what we recognize in them is primarily our own human intelligence, translated into algorithms, data structures, and computing processes. What they lack is what really defines human thinking: self-awareness. In the Zoomposium, Thomas Fuchs talks about: • the relationship between intelligence and consciousness • the limits of current AI models • embodied consciousness as an alternative to neuroconstructivism • the question of whether machines can ever truly be conscious • and what social changes AI is already triggering today A philosophically and scientifically highly topical conversation about the future of humanity, technology, and responsibility. 🎥 Interview https://youtu.be/1ouxs6P3Enc 📎Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/11/20/das-verkoerperte-bewusstsein/

🤖🧠 Why algorithms do not generate consciousness Even the best algorithms and AI programs do not truly understand what they are doing. They follow rules and process data, but they lack genuine understanding and awareness of their own actions. As Prof. Dr. Thomas Fuchs explains in the Zoomposium, the difference is that consciousness is always embodied. It is not just a process in the brain or an algorithm on a hard drive. Only a system that experiences the “coherence” of its experience can truly understand. We discuss: • Can AI ever develop true consciousness? • How does the embodiment paradigm help us understand the “hard problem of consciousness”? • What social changes will unconscious intelligence bring, which may soon know us better than we know ourselves (keyword: big data)? 🎥 Interview https://youtu.be/1ouxs6P3Enc 📎Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/11/20/das-verkoerperte-bewusstsein/

🎥 Interview: https://youtu.be/1ouxs6P3Enc 📎Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/11/20/das-verkoerperte-bewusstsein/

🎥 Interview https://youtu.be/1ouxs6P3Enc 📎Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/11/20/das-verkoerperte-bewusstsein/