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Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness

267 views · Published 18 August 2015 · 17:14 · Indexed 28 October 2026

Channel: CJ Liu · 2015 · Howto & Style

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Amit Goswami shares the key difference between human and machine consciousness.  What are the limits of machine consciousness?  What jobs will AI take over? Should we be worried? 

0:13  What is creativity? Why is it the one thing that differentiates us from artificial intelligence?   Amit Goswami explains the difference between our machine nature and our human nature.  Our elitism geared toward scientific materialism and it's beliefs denies the potentiality of our creativity. 
2:28 Could artificial intelligence have consciousness? In scientific materialism consciousness is viewed as an object, something to have, or something to be.  Quatum physics has this idea of tangled hierarchy, which means 2 levels making up each other. This defies current laboratory work which defines a level by level of hierarchy going either upward or downward. A tangled hierarchy is when two levels make each other, sort of a chicken or egg, which comes first scenario. A scientific example is that it takes DNA to make protein, and it takes protein to make DNA which makes it impossible to make the DNA protein combination in a laboratory. 
4:19 It's impossible for a machine to have consciousness because a machine cannot be in a state of being, which is a uniquely human ability.Human beings are in a state of being because God can do the impossible. 
5:25  What is the power of the ego and free will that AI can exhibit? AI will have  free will to choose among conditioned alternatives, which humans refer to as freedom.  Amit asks if this is the ultimate expression of human freedom?  Even though a computer is simulating a good part of what humans do and replicate our ego self and our personal beliefs, AI can never fully express human values such as freedom. While computers have algorithms, Amit questions whether they can ever truly create. For example, can a computer can create something without the inputs from a human. 
10:17  Humans live in the realm of potentiality (intuitiion and creativity), which is a realm that AI does not live in. 
10:28 It is because we are alive that we have access to 2 realities, whereas AI cannot because they don't have life energy running through them. 
11:13 Why almost all jobs will be replaced by computers? If we don't wake up and expand the economy to more human-oriented ideas (vital energy,subtle energy, and spiritual values), we will have nothing to "do". 
11:50 What will work look like if all mechanical jobs are taken over by robots?  The new products and services we create will be oriented towards our humanness.  For example, putting the essence of love in technology or by creating products. 
14:13  Why we should look forward to having robots take over our jobs? The upside of our free time is having time to explore meaning, values, and spirituality. 
15:38 Why scientific materialism sets up to see the AI revolution as a doomsday event? If we see ourselves as machine-like (a core premise of scientific materialism), then robotics provide a threat.

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