Tag: Godel's incompleteness theorem

Old computers from the 80s in an abandoned computing center

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 13, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Science

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Featured, Godel's incompleteness theorem, Marvin Minsky on consciousness theory, Max Tegmark on Penrose's consciousness theory, Mysterians, Orch OR theory of consciousness, Roger Penrose (on consciousness theory), Steve Paulson, Steve Paulson on Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff (on consciousness)}

When materialist assumptions about the mind begin to sound dated…

_{A 2017 profile of Roger Penrose and his consciousness theory was penned before slow changes and major tumults rocked the discipline — and it shows} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 13, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Science}

Paulson’s Penrose profile is written as if materialism is going to prevail but that seems much less likely now than it perhaps did in 2017. Read More ›

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October 25, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health, Philosophy of Mind

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2084 (book), Artificial intelligence and Christians, Artificial intelligence in medicine, Chinese Room experiment, Computers as conscious (John Lennox's view), Cryonics and superintelligence, Featured, Godel's incompleteness theorem, Homo Deus (book), John Lennox, John Searle, Roger Penrose on computers and consciousness, Superintelligence (John Lennox's view), Transhumanism (characteristics), Yuval Noah Harari}

Oxford’s John Lennox Busts the “Computer Takeover” Myth

_{AI is here to stay, he says, but in addition to doing a great deal of good, it raises vast problems we must address} _{News
October 25, 2022

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Earlier this month, we looked at claims that robots are going to scarf up everyone’s jobs. That was a bonus feature in the Science Uprising series. In another bonus interview, “John Lennox on the Transhumanist Claim AI Will Turn Humans into Gods” (October 17, 2022), Oxford mathematician Lennox talks about claims that 1) computers are taking over and that 2) we will merge with them (transhumanism). Lennox is the author of 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (2020). This is the first of two parts, where he talks mainly about narrow AI but then gets into the topic of artificial general intelligence (AGI). A partial transcript and notes follow: John Lennox: The typical AI system consists of a Read More ›