Demis Hassabis

Of course, we cordially disagree, which is, you know, I feel like, I mean, he collaborated with a lot of good neuroscientists to see if he could find mechanisms for quantum mechanics behavior in the brain.

And to my knowledge, they haven't found anything convincing yet.

So my betting is that it is just classical computing that's going on in the brain, which suggests that all the phenomena are modelable or mimicable by a classical computer.

But we'll see.

There may be this final mysterious things of the feeling of consciousness, the qualia, these kinds of things that philosophers debate where it's unique to the substrate.

We may even come towards understanding that if we do things like Neuralink and have neural interfaces to the AI systems, which I think we probably will eventually, maybe to keep up with the AI systems, we might actually be able to feel for ourselves what it's like to compute on silicon.

And maybe that will tell us.

So I think it's going to be interesting.

I had a debate once with the late Daniel Dennett about

Why do we think each other are conscious?

Okay, so it's for two reasons.

One is you're exhibiting the same behavior that I am.

So that's one thing.

Behaviorally, you seem like a conscious being if I am.

But the second thing, which is often overlooked, is that we're running on the same substrate.

So if you're behaving in the same way and we're running on the same substrate, it's most parsimonious to assume you're feeling the same experience that I'm feeling.

But with an AI that's on silicon, we won't be able to rely on the second part, even if it exhibits the first part, that behavior looks like a behavior of a conscious being.

It might even claim it is.

But we wouldn't know how it actually felt.

And it probably couldn't know what we felt, at least in the first stages.