There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness'

Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by Animats on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:44PM (#48175336)

OK, dualism. Heard that before.

The new hard problem: how do biological brains get so much done on such slow hardware? That's a real physics question. We're missing something.

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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by altmanaltman on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:47PM (#48175346)

Hey you give Nvidia a few million years to evolve their chips and just see what happens

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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by anon291 on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:50PM (#48175365)

The brain is not slow?

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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by Animats on Monday May 18, 2026 @12:21AM (#48175545)

Measured signals seem to be at kilohertz, not gigahertz, speeds.

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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by anon291 on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:21PM (#48187232)

Some of the state of the art AI chips have similar speeds

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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by skirmish on Monday May 18, 2026 @05:11AM (#48177103)

Massive parallel processing.

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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by don_esteban on Monday May 18, 2026 @06:05AM (#48177449)

a) massive parallelism (although the current AI HW is getting there) b) clever structure/organization (we are nowhere near close) c) it is still buggy as hell

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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by djokkataja on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:01AM (#48177909)

> get so much done

Compared to what??

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