Articles related to : Consciousness

We are motivated by our desires, aren’t we? And it seems that our goal is to indulge ourselves. Would you agree? But not all our desires are equal.

Eventually, brains will be measured in minute details and digitized. The connections in your brains (connectome) will become reproducible. It well may be that the complexity of the connectome facilitates the emergence of consciousness.

If talking to AI via an intermediary, we are not able to distinguish between a human and a robot, does it mean that such a robot is conscious?

The living can create a mental model of the world, plan, predict, act based on the prediction, and correct the model based on the result of the action or based just on the observations.

Imagine humans in savanna a million years ago. Everything is subject to survival, whether they hunt or listen to stories sitting by the fire. What are these story about? About hunting, of course.

Why unlimited indulging in savory pleasure is not good for you? If we still would like to taste something after we ate a lot already, does not it mean that the body indicates that more food is good for you?

Quantum physics theory works successfully almost a hundred years already. But does it describes reality? Its “mysteries” and paradoxes excite our fantasy and desire to use them to explain all the not understood yet phenomena and conrtradictions.

Quantum theory is expressed in maths. But when the scientists talk about their work to laypeople, they inevitably use ordinary language and the ambiguity and misinterpretation creep in.

Pyramids, Stonehenge, Göbekli Tepe. Why spend so much time and energy? What was the motivation for building them?

We have a model of the world in our mind. It guides us and helps to plan ahead. But it tends to grow beyond what we need for the task at hand and takes the resources that might be needed for the survival. Does it weaken us as a species? Professor Hoffman thinks so.