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Noam Chomsky on Panpsychism, Mind Body Problem, and Are Computers Conscious?

Noam Chomsky on Panpsychism, Mind Body Problem, and Are Computers Conscious?

FromTheories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal


Noam Chomsky on Panpsychism, Mind Body Problem, and Are Computers Conscious?

FromTheories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Length:
59 minutes
Released:
Oct 25, 2022
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:48 [Joscha Bach] What is the most important unsolved problem in cognitive science?
00:05:07 [Joscha Bach ]In which ways did you update your thinking on AI in the last five years?
00:09:29 [Joscha Bach] Posibilities and approaches for brains & minds to reach humal-like intelligence in today's neural network
00:10:56 [Joscha Bach] Importance of consciousness in building systems that learn, think and create at a human level
00:12:26 [Joscha Bach] Are you still a mysterian?
00:15:36 [Prof. Donald Hoffman] Is spacetime really doomed?
00:16:19 [Prof. Donald Hoffman] Letting go of spacetime and its affects on the mind-body problem
00:23:53 [Prof. Avi Loeb] Probability of AI overcoming human intelligence and establishing their own society
00:27:20 [Karl Friston] Prospects of machines (i.e., sentinent artifacts) talking to each other - or us?
00:31:00 [Prof. Tim Maudlin] Is goodman's new riddle of induction historically accurate?
00:36:30 [Prof. Philip Goff] Intrinsic nature of matter and panpsychism
00:42:30 [anonymous] Do you have a resolution of the Liar’s Paradox or Raven Paradox?
00:42:55 [anonymous] Axioms of a language and the meaning of the words
00:48:06 [anonymous] Is there any relation between language and extended phenotype?
00:49:38 [anonymous] Our obsession with turing test and its influence on behaviorism and consiousness
00:51:52 [anonymous] Can ill-defined mathematical statements and physics concepts have meaning?
00:55:24 [Norman Wildberger] Is there any linguistic evidence for universal, or almost universal, innate mathematical notions in humans?
00:57:01 [anonymous] Vastness of the term "grammar" and its generalization
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Released:
Oct 25, 2022
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Exploring theoretical physics, consciousness, free will, and God. If you'd like to support this podcast, then visit the Patreon (https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal). Thank you for your charitable and kind hearted support. My name is Curt Jaimungal, a Torontonian filmmaker making a documentary on the above topics (as for what shape the final settled project will take, I'm unsure). During the exploratory phase, there will be a plethora of interviews / conversations with intellectuals placed on this channel -- approximately un-edited.