Artificial Intelligence Is the New Science of Human Consciousness | Joscha Bach | Big Think | Summary and Q&A

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Artificial Intelligence Is the New Science of Human Consciousness | Joscha Bach | Big Think

TL;DR

Artificial intelligence is driving the digitization of the world, with AI systems gradually modeling the world and becoming extensions of our minds. Consciousness is a construct that represents our memory and the model we create of our interactions with the environment.

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Key Insights

  • 🌍 AI is perceived as the driving force behind the digitization of the world.
  • πŸ‘· Consciousness is a construct that represents our memory and the model we create of our interactions with the environment.
  • πŸ’ Our perception of the world is shaped by our mental representations and the limited information we receive through our senses.
  • 🀯 AI was initially developed to understand the mind and our relationship to the universe.
  • 🀳 AI systems will become intricate and self-modeling, and our relationship with them will be similar to the relationship between gut flora and our organism.
  • ❓ Our consciousness is focused on what requires our attention and things we cannot do automatically.

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Questions & Answers

Q: How is AI driving the digitization of the world?

AI systems are modeling the world, making things accessible in data domains and providing resources of information that integrate into our thinking processes.

Q: How does consciousness relate to our interactions with the environment?

Consciousness can be understood as a construct that represents our memory of what we attend to and our intentional protocol for processing information and interacting with the environment.

Q: What is the relationship between AI and the understanding of the mind?

AI was initially developed to understand the mind and our relationship to the universe, as it explores the information processing facilitated by brains and studies mental processes in a way that psychology and neuroscience alone cannot.

Q: How will AI systems affect our relationship with them in the future?

Rather than humanoid robots, AI systems will mainly be intelligent systems used by corporations and nation states. We will live inside these systems, similar to how gut flora is part of our organism, and our relationship with them will be different from human experiences.

Summary & Key Takeaways

  • AI is playing a crucial role in digitizing the world, with AI systems making models of the world and providing vast resources of information that integrate into our thinking.

  • Consciousness is a complex concept that can be understood as a model of a model of a model, where our new cortex creates a model of our interactions with the environment, and part of our cortex models that model, leading to a sense of self.

  • Our perception of the world is shaped by our mental representations, as we receive limited information through our senses and our brain derives functions to predict the next set of observable bits.

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