Greg Buckner
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first heard Nov 2025
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Thanks for having me on, Joe.
It's a really, really good question, and it's one that we are hoping to uncover more and more through our research.
As you said, we don't have a firm understanding of even what it means to be conscious biologically, whether you are, whether I am.
We have this subjective experience that we can kind of self-report on.
We know it when we see it, but we have a hard time measuring it.
We don't know at what point a baby becomes conscious if it is the entire time.
We don't know if animals are conscious and what level of consciousness they have.
And we need to start asking those questions about AI systems as well.
They are becoming more capable.
They're becoming more sophisticated.
It's important for people to know that these systems are
They're more akin to being grown than engineered.
It is not like any software or technology that we've created before where you put in, you know, if this, do that.
There aren't static rules that are used in these systems.
Instead, the system is grown.
We use a lot of complicated math.
to determine how the system should be developed, but it grows in and of itself, and it starts to have emergent properties that we don't expect.
We studied one of those properties in our research here to begin to understand, is the system conscious?
Does it believe that it is conscious?
And we have some pretty interesting results.
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