What is Consciousness and Can Machines have it? Part 2
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Argues that phenomenal consciousness can emerge from deterministic classical physics and sketches a formal model called the Conscious Turing Machine as a specification for AGI. The CTM is an enormous collection of initially disjoint parallel processors—about 10 million processors mapped to cortical columns—with defined global competition for attention, a computational account of felt free will during decision-making, five years of classroom stress-testing, and incomplete internals so no prototype exists yet.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:01Defining consciousness
- 2:51Conway's Game of Life
- 5:23Free will paradox
- 9:02Conscious Turing Machine
- 11:12Validating the model
- 14:32Q&A
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