Connectionists: Weird beliefs about consciousness

[Stephen José Hanson]

Ah proof by ignorance.    Yes, another way to deny the need for 
experimental tests.

Interesting PNAS article.. on consciousness as near critical slow 
cortical dynamics..

https://www.pnas.org/content/119/7/e2024455119 
<https://www.pnas.org/content/119/7/e2024455119>

(Barak Pearlmutter had some similar theory concerning sleep a while back).

Steve

On 2/14/22 3:02 AM, Geoffrey Hinton wrote:
> Many AI researchers are very unclear about what consciousness is and 
> also very sure that GPT-3 doesn’t have it. It’s a strange combination.
>
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