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Emergent Behaviours · 66w
Free will doesn’t exist. Read Sam Harris. We are deterministic machines. Consciousness is an emergent property of neuronal computation, but is not substrate dependent.
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Agreed but I’m more of a robert sapolsky fan on the subject. Sam’s silly idea of maximizing well-being to solve for morality is very low level. I would go as far to say the consciousness is emergent as a result of our brain grappling with language which separates the body that acts in the world out of instinct and the individual in the mind that is constantly questioning things.
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Emergent Behaviours · 66w
Could AGI be conscious despite not having human language? They operate with high dimensional embeddings - likely in the same way humans do (under the hood) - the end result of which being the resulting human language. So is it language itself, of the _computation_ of a “language?”