There are some who say immortality is available if we can upload our minds to a computer. This presupposes our minds are computable and can be duplicated by a computer. Are our minds computable? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Selmer Bringsjord discuss consciousness, cognition, and artificial intelligence.

Show Notes

• 00:39 | Introducing Selmer Bringsjord, Professor — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
• 01:18 | Can computers fake all human behaviors?
• 02:02 | Can computers duplicate all human behaviors?
• 03:10 | Subjective measurement
• 04:40 | The definition of cognition
• 08:50 | Is consciousness is a special case of cognition?
• 13:16 | Are consciousness and cognition non-algorithmic?
• 14:48 | Examples of cognition that are not computable

Additional Resources

• Selmer Bringsjord’s website
• David Gelernter at Wikipedia
• What Robots Can and Can’t Be by Selmer Bringsjord
• Bringsjord, Selmer, and Michael Zenzen. “Cognition is not computation: The argument from irreversibility.” Synthese 113, no. 2 (1997): 285-320.
• Claude Shannon at Encyclopædia Britannica
• Ray Kurzweil