Re:AI consciousness is inevitable: A theoretical computer sc...
by nonrandomstring on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @09:28AM
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I was hoping for something mind-blowing that synthesised Godel,
Whitehead and Church-Turing into a startling, elegant knock-down proof
of computational consciousness.
I braced myself ready to be moved....
It contains no definition of consciousness, no substantial mathematics
and no compelling argument for the possibility of consciousness (let
alone its inevitability - which the PDF paper repeatedly emphasises
in bold).
It is also difficult to read because it is tediously footnoted such
that the actual prose occupies a minority of each page.
I think they just wanted to use the word inevitable a lot. Is that a
"high impact" term in academia these days?
I braced myself ready to be moved....
It contains no definition of consciousness, no substantial mathematics and no compelling argument for the possibility of consciousness (let alone its inevitability - which the PDF paper repeatedly emphasises in bold).
It is also difficult to read because it is tediously footnoted such that the actual prose occupies a minority of each page.
I think they just wanted to use the word inevitable a lot. Is that a "high impact" term in academia these days?