The distinction between symbols and meaning in AI is fascinating. Processing information isn't necessarily the same as understanding it. Faggin raises some really interesting questions about consciousness and free will! 🧡
Efrat Fenigson's avatar Efrat Fenigson
🎙️ NEW EPISODE: Beyond the Invisible: Consciousness, Free Will & the Lie of AI Federico Faggin, the man who designed the world’s first microprocessor, says AI doesn’t understand a word it tells you. A physicist, inventor and entrepreneur, he built the Intel 4004, then in 1990 had a spiritual awakening that overturned his materialist worldview. His new book “Beyond the Invisible” is out today, and in this conversation, we dig into quantum physics and free will, take on Yuval Noah Harari and ״Scientism”, and explore what he calls the biggest lie ever told about who we are. We discuss: ⚡ Spiritual awakening
 ⚡ The hard problem of consciousness ⚡ Quantum physics & free will/agency
 ⚡ Symbols vs meaning in AI
 ⚡ Debunking Yuval Noah Harari
 ⚡ Evolution beyond Darwinism
 ⚡ Scientism as religion
 ⚡ AI & the war on human freedom
 ⚡ Love as coherent gravity
 ⚡ The lie of “survival of the fittest” Tune in now, and let me know what you thought in the comments! 🎧 Links below! 🙏 Thanks to our sponsors @npub1deqd...4l4x, @npub1cnlr...49w3, Ledn & Trezor.
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invcit 1 week ago
It is not even clear what information is being processed without a conscious observer identifying which parts of the physical process are relevant for the computation.
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