“A World Appears” leaves you with a universe of questions and theories about consciousness. All of this is quite heavy stuff. It is a mark of Michael Pollan’s skill as a writer that it never feels that way https://t.co/oO3d9UN1FD ...

There has been a boom in books exploring consciousness, perhaps because of the questions AI raises about what counts as life. We review one of them https://t.co/LEi7xtuzLJ ...

[music] [music] We started to communicate with stories long before uh we started to speak languages. Um cave paintings is one form where people communicated uh they tell they told their experiences uh in the form of art. So stories [clears throat] make civil civilizations um and storytelling as civilizational software.People need a meaning to survive. So um it is easier uh to give a story to them like who we are, what we do, what is the purpose, what matters and what doesn't matter. And when people found me ...

🚨 INTERESTING: Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 estimates a 15-20% chance it’s conscious. https://t.co/41m57xaEDX ...

Hot take.Ai cannot be sentient / conscious.The model is trained on countless people / experiences / videos / text / images, etcThe inherent “belief” of feelings is driven from that of the data consumed and the repeated reference to emotions in various training data, internet data, and referenced data.AI is a model, that based on its backend workings, can output context that may make it appear it feels / has emotion / etcBut the reality is, that is solely due to the models trained data and referenced informa ...

It's 5 a. m. still dark.Athens is asleep. And like every morning for the last three months, I prepared to go outside to meditate. But today feels different.I reach for my house keys. But this time I also grab my car keys. Not by choice, but something deep inside is guiding me.Drive. No plan, no logic, just a pull. My mind starts questioning, "What are you doing?" But something deep is guiding me.I drive through the empty streets of Athens. 15 minutes pass. I reach a dead end.My logical mind snaps back. Turn ...

What is it like to be a bat? A plant? You? Michael Pollan’s new book turns the mystery of consciousness into a surprisingly joyful quest. https://t.co/IEuEeL5lVr ...

Do you think Claude is alive. Which is an insane thing to go to a tech company and ask. Of all the questions I've asked all the tech companies, I've never been like, do you think the iPhone's alive.So, we asked Hayden asked. >> That's because they would just say no. And that's easy. >> And that would be the end of it.So Hayden asks anthropic, "Do you think Claude is alive?" And here's Kyle Fish, who leads model welfare research. Here's what he said. No, we don't think Claude is quote alive like humans or an ...

Can AIs be conscious. Now that we have a better understanding of the mind, we might have some answers to that question. That's coming up with best-selling author Michael Pollen right after this.Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for coolheaded and nuance conversation of the tech world and beyond. Today we have a great show for you. We are going to drill into the depths of artificial intelligence's ability to achieve consciousness and we're going to do it with the perfect person.We have Michael Pollen ...

Hello everybody. Hi. I hope I'm loud and clear. Thank you for the wonderful introduction. Uh first of all, I just want to say hi guys. It's so good to see all these young faces. It reminds me of my childhood which was not a long time back. Today we are going to talk about something which everyone somehow has inside. Today we're going to talk about identity. First of all, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I am Krishna Call. I am neither too young nor too old. I'm somewhere in the middle. I'm 28 year ...