The Hard Problem of Consciousness and Whether AI Could Ever Feel

The Hard Problem of Consciousness and Whether AI Could Ever Feel

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
  1. 01Intro1 min
  2. 02The Easy vs. The Hard Problem3 min
  3. 03The Philosophical Zombie and the Explanatory Gap3 min
  4. 04AI and the Illusion of Sentience3 min
  5. 05The Future of Silicon Souls2 min
  6. 06Outro1 min
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