Anil Seth proposes that consciousness is merely a result of 'controlled hallucinations'
Anil Seth proposes the "Beast Machine" theory that suggests our consciousness are 'controlled hallucinations' and as such, AI will likely never achieve it.Posted: Jan 07, 2022 3:41 PM EST | Last Updated: January 7, 2022
The other thing he was famous or infamous for at the time, was denying that non-human animals had any meaningful conscious existence or selfhood of the kind that had any ethical or moral status, so he called non-human animals "bête-machines." So instead of saying that our nature as beast machines is irrelevant, I think what matters is that we experience the world and the self — with, through, and because of our living bodies. We are conscious beast machines, and I think that's a good thing. It brings us closer to the rest of nature rather than further apart.So then what is the sense of selfhood from a beast machine perspective?
And the beast machine aspect of selfhood is really, for me, the bottom level, the thing that undergirds and underpins everything else.In one sense, there are strong parallels between a lot of AI algorithms and emerging ideas about how we think the brain mechanisms of perceptual experience work. But then there's more philosophical questions about the possibility of building a conscious artificial intelligence.
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