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I can't wait to bring you this conversation between @dr_mcgilchrist and @anilkseth on neuroscience, consciousness and God!
They discuss left and right brain hemispheres, panpsychism, theories of consciousness and how meditation and prayer affect our psychology. Seth also
Off to @sxsw for a panel on "perceptual diversity: art and neuroscience in design (Mon 16th, 4pm, Marriott Downtown, ), & then the @berggruenInst Essay Prize Award Ceremony (Tue 17th, 6pm, The Line, https://philevents.org/event/show/146577) ⭐️
Another very valuable contribution to the debate about “conscious AI” - and another strike against computational functionalism 👇🏽
🧵1/4 The debate over AI sentience is caught in an "AI welfare trap." My new preprint argues computational functionalism rests on a category error: the Abstraction Fallacy. AI can simulate consciousness, but cannot instantiate it. https://philpapers.org/rec/LERTAF