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#consciousness

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Michael Gisiger :mastodon:

This, I think, is the ultimate hard problem of #consciousness, not just in relation to #ai, but to any non-carbon-based 'life' we might encounter—if we're even able to recognise it as such:

”We as humans do not fully understand our own minds. Part of the challenge in understanding our own conscious experience is precisely that it is an internal self-referential experience. So how will we go about testing or recognizing it in an intelligence that is physically different and operates using different algorithms than our own?“

Carl Sagan coined a term for it: carbon chauvinism.

forbes.com/sites/gabrielasilva

ForbesCan AI Understand? The Chinese Room Argument Says No, But Is It Right?The Chinese room argument challenges the claim that AI can genuinely understand language, let alone possess true consciousness. But is it right?
#philosophy
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Dennis A

#Consciousness #Neuroscience #thalamus
"A team of scientists has identified areas of the brain that are activated when a person becomes aware of themself and their thoughts."

Scientists Think They’ve Found the Region of the Brain That Regulates Conscious Perception

"A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain receives."
wired.com/story/scientists-thi

WIRED · Scientists Think They’ve Found the Region of the Brain That Regulates Conscious PerceptionBy Jorge Garay
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Bytes Europe

Mapping the mind: Chinese and French scientists advance on neural origins of consciousness byteseu.com/945447/ #BGIResearch #ClaudeBernardUniversityLyon1 #cognition #consciousness #CrabEatingMacaque #depression #evolution #Hippocampus #macaque #marmosets #NeurologicalDisorders #RNA #Science #SleepRegulation #SubcorticalRegions #TranscriptomeAtlas

Bytes Europe · Mapping the mind: Chinese and French scientists advance on neural origins of consciousnessChinese and French scientists have developed an extremely detailed blueprint of the crab-eating macaque’s claustrum, an elusive brain region believed to play a role in consciousness.The detailed map of connections between nerve cells in the macaque claustrum and the rest of the brain could help us understand how this region and its different cell types play a role in cognitive functions, such as memory integration and abstract thinking.The team also revealed significant differences in the structure and cell types of macaque and rodent claustrums, which could provide clues to help investigate the evolutionary mechanism behind consciousness. 09:07AI tool promises to
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moonlightmyst
"The Intruder"

A #door opens
An #intruder awaits
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This is an #acrylic #painting from a few years back. And just as I am posting this, I am reminded of the poem, "Alone" by #EdgarAllanPoe:

From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—
Then—in my childhood—in the dawn
Of a most stormy life—was drawn
From ev’ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still—
From the torrent, or the fountain—
From the red cliff of the mountain—
From the sun that ’round me roll’d
In its autumn tint of gold—
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass’d me flying by—
From the thunder, and the storm—
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view—

#acrylicpainting #acryliconcanvas #meditation #timetravel #consciousness #darkart #art #pixelfedart #canadianartist #traditionalart #fediart #visions #meditation #darkness #noai
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Good News Community

Scientists have created the most detailed wiring diagram of the brain ever, thanks to IARPA’s MICrONS program. They mapped over 200,000 cells and 500 million synapses in a mouse’s visual cortex, linking structure and function at an unprecedented scale. This breakthrough could revolutionize our understanding of cognition, consciousness, and brain disorders.

@goodnews

#Neuroscience #BrainMapping #MICrONS #IARPA #Consciousness #GoodNews
thedebrief.org/iarpa-research-

The Debrief · IARPA Research Achieves the Impossible in New Breakthrough Revealing the Brain's Biggest MysteriesScience, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.
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Matt Hodgkinson

Sean Carroll was kind in letting Annaka Harris present her ideas on consciousness, and gently querying them. I think he was too kind. I'm not sure if she's is a devil's advocate - she followed her weakest points with nervous laughter. She was particularly unconvincing in explaining the leap from split brain studies and neurological illusions to everything potentially being conscious. To me it removes meaning from "conscious".
m.youtube.com/watch?si=5_-dKOy
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#SeanCarroll #Consciousness #AnnakaHarris

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Perceptions Today

Thinking about perception today, I thought would you collect toys made of your favourite researchers?

#AnthonyPeake @cheattheferryman54
#rnvooght @rnvooght
#mikefiorito @mike3fio
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#consciousness #anciienthistory #philosophy
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InstagramPerceptions on Instagram: "Thinking about perception today, I thought would you collect toys made of your favourite researchers? #AnthonyPeake @cheattheferryman54 #rnvooght @rnvooght #mikefiorito @mike3fio #consciousness #anciienthistory #philosophy"1 likes, 1 comments - perceptions_today on April 14, 2025: "Thinking about perception today, I thought would you collect toys made of your favourite researchers? #AnthonyPeake @cheattheferryman54 #rnvooght @rnvooght #mikefiorito @mike3fio #consciousness #anciienthistory #philosophy".
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Watson

"#AI isn’t conscious. #Consciousness means subjective experience. It’s the hearer of what’s heard, the seer of what’s seen, and the perceiver of thoughts. We can know consciousness exists by our own experience of it, and we can infer that other people and animals must also have it because they have so many similarities to us. There is absolutely no reason to assume that inanimate, inorganic matter is capable of consciousness besides blind faith religious belief."
caitlinjohnst.one/p/on-ai-and-

Caitlin’s Newsletter · On AI And ConsciousnessBy Caitlin Johnstone
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Consciousness is the only reason life has value. It’s the only reason anything matters. Otherwise life would just be physical materials getting whipped about by natural forces without anyone feeling, sensing or experiencing any part of it. Suffering wouldn’t matter because it’s not being felt or experienced. Joy wouldn’t matter because it’s not being felt or experienced. There’d be no good reason not to torture someone, because there wouldn’t be any conscious experience of pain. There’d be no good reason to love anyone, because there wouldn’t be any conscious experience of love. Consciousness is the only reason life is worth living.

There is no basis on which to believe AI will ever be conscious. Consciousness isn’t some minor detail that science will easily work out once it gets around to it; it’s an all-encompassing phenomenon which has always been a complete mystery to all scientific fields. Science has no idea what consciousness is or why it happens, much less how to replicate it. It’s the single most important and fundamental aspect of every second of our waking experience of life, yet it remains a complete unknown to all of science. And this somehow gets left out of so much of the conversation about the future of artificial “intelligence”."

x.com/caitoz/status/1910886574

X (formerly Twitter)Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) on XOn AI And Consciousness
#AI#Consciousness#SiliconValley
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