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Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence | John Searle | Talks at Google

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What it is

John Searle's Talk at Google on consciousness and artificial intelligence, hosted by Google's Singularity Network. He presents his philosophy of mind and Chinese room argument that computation is syntactic and cannot capture semantics.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Used as a source for Searle's own argument in Chinese room discussions, though some find nothing new in it.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2017

What HN commenters said

  1. “He explains this in the google video very well”

    Searle explains why computation cannot capture semantic content.

    makebelieve, 2016-01 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Opinion about Searle's Chinese Room?”

  2. “John Searl is good speaker so try his talk”

    Introductory resource on philosophy of mind from a good speaker.

    3498rtigcufk, 2017-03 · Recommendation · in “Has philosophy ever clarified mathematics?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: john searle, chinese room, consciousness, strong ai, semantics

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