Welcome to another episode of the Skeptico and AI Truth Ethics podcast.

This is another one of those where they're going to be the same.

I think it's an incredibly important interview.

This one is probably more geared towards the skeptico friends that I've had that are really into consciousness.

Although really this is where you ought to be if you're into

AI ethics.

Not everyone agrees with me, but ultimately I think the really significant issues come down to

this issue of AI sentience, really superintelligence, AGI.

All that stuff is fundamentally about consciousness and about the

nature of consciousness.

And in my conspiratorial little way, I'd suggest that the attention is being drawn away from

that.

But hopefully in this episode and some of the other ones, you'll see that it maybe should be there.

So let's jump into this one and talk about crows, particularly white crows. They call me white crow. It's just pure rhetoric.

It's just talking to talk. But to refute the role that all crows are black, all you need,

is one single white one. I've never seen a white crow of you. You realize, Alex, most patients in most clinics do not have EG.

Correct, but again, this is a white crow situation.

Isn't that your point that in no instances ever was their zero brain activity

while they were having conscious experiences that formed memories.

Yeah, but it's not as simple as saying, is there a white crow?

Because I say that crow isn't white.

One instance of it would violate it.

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