Geoffrey Hinton

Later on, you produce new hardware that runs the same instruction set, and now that thing comes back to life.

So for digital intelligence, we solved the problem of resurrection.

The Catholic Church is very interested in resurrection.

They believe it happened at least once.

We can actually do it, but we can only do it for digital intelligences.

We can't do it for analog ones.

With analog intelligences, when you die, all your knowledge dies with you because it was in the strength of the connections for your particular brain.

So there's an issue about whether mortality and the experience of mortality and other things like that

are going to be essential for having those really good dramatic breakthroughs.

I don't think we know the answer to that yet.

Okay, so obviously this takes you into philosophical debates.

I actually studied philosophy here at Cambridge, and I was quite interested in philosophy of mind, and I think I learned some things there.

But on the whole, I just developed antibodies, because I'd done science before that, particularly physics.

In physics, if you have a disagreement, you do an experiment.

There is no experiment in philosophy.

So there's no way of distinguishing between a theory that sounds really good, but is wrong, and a theory that sounds ridiculous, but is right.

Like black holes and quantum mechanics, they're both ridiculous, but they happen to be right.

And there's other theories that sound just great, but are just wrong.

Philosophy doesn't have that experimental referee.

Yeah, what he's saying is everybody thinks people like them should have rights.