[OT?] consciousness discussion on PBS
I saw the last 5-10 minutes of a fascinating TV show last night, "Is
Consciousness Definable", part of a series called Closer to Truth (which has
LOTS of other interesting episodes!),
http://www.closertotruth.com/
unfortunately, that particular episode wasn't abstracted or streamed, but
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/closertotruth/explore/show_12.html
does have an abstract of it. "Four brain scientists and four different
answers."
Introduced the term "zombie" for, I think, an AI (or maybe just a conceptual
exercise?) which could perform complex behavior without an attendant
consciousness, and someone suggested (insisted) that brain synapses function
via quantum mechanics, etc. A lot of it went over my head :) but it was
interesting!
Dan Moyer
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