Karl Friston
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402 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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And that recognition is just another act of intelligence.
It's just an act of inference.
It's an explanation.
You know, this explanation that this thing is conscious in the sense that I am conscious.
Is a good enough explanation to explain all the observable behavior.
So there is no ground truth here.
And I think that sort of takes up a lot of pressure off what could become quite toxic arguments in certainly machine consciousness and machine welfare.
You cannot adopt a fundamentalist position on consciousness because, by definition, you will never know.
But it also means that these debates.
Debates about machine consciousness or aspirations to build or discussions about could one build machine consciousness can only be had.
by people who subscribe to the notion that consciousness is a suitable fantasy or hypothesis to explain certain kinds of self-organization.
I probably wanted a bit off point there, but uh I I enjoy making that point.
But can you remind me what your question was?
Yeah, well I mean th so you know
From the point of view of what I've just said, um, um
Yes and no.
Yeah.
It will if it mimics consciousness to a suitably um accurate extent.
you will certainly infer it is conscious.
And that's as far as anybody could go.
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