William Hahn
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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You can go into the prompt and say, can you please simulate being the following ten things and talk to me what I should do today?
Yeah, I just wanna real quick, I wanna thank Kurt for traveling always neutral.
Always makes the discussion quite interesting.
And I wanna thank Addie who did a tremendous amount of work organizing our speaker.
Yeah, so th really the idea is bringing together ideas from consciousness and computation.
And so typically when we think of consciousness, we have this kind of light switch view that it's either on or off.
And there's a idea attributed to Leibniz where it's really a hierarchy.
It's kind of a ladder of of different capabilities.
And it revolves around the ability to represent your ideas, um, to to think about your thinking, and then to think about that thinking and so on as this sort of this hierarchy that goes up.
And if we think about the the simplest animals, um they don't they have the sort of the first order things like sensation and response to stimulus, but they don't really have any way of representing that response.
And it seems that
by thinking in terms of representation and then representing your representation, where we can have things like language and then we can build you know philosophies on top of that language and
it's it's a way of modeling the model and a way of talking about the talking and things.
And so we get this more analog or at least a stepwise approach to
to consciousness where it's not just on or off, but it's kind of this this continuum.
And I think this is this is relevant now because we're in this age where we're building intelligent machines.
And I would argue that these these machines that we have in the form of these modern AIs are quite intelligent.
And the question now is
Do they instantiate something like consciousness?
And if so, is it like human consciousness?
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