Philosophy
The Hard Problem of Consciousness and Whether AI Could Ever Feel
11 min
An exploration of David Chalmers's 'Hard Problem' and its implications for the debate over artificial sentience.
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Show notes
David Chalmers's nineteen ninety-five paper 'Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness'
The distinction between functional 'Easy Problems' and phenomenal 'Hard Problems'
Recent Turing Test results for GPT-4.5 and Llama 3
The philosophical zombie thought experiment and the Explanatory Gap
Perspectives from neuroscientist Anil Seth on embodiment
In this episode
- 1Intro1 min
- 2The Easy vs. The Hard Problem3 min
- 3The Philosophical Zombie and the Explanatory Gap3 min
- 4AI and the Illusion of Sentience3 min
- 5The Future of Silicon Souls2 min
- 6Outro1 min
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