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Keith Frankish is a British philosopher specialising in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of cognitive science.

Read Keith's essay, "Illusionism as a theory of consciousness" (2016).

Find Keith's website here.

Keith Frankish and Philip Goff co-host a channel 'Mind Chat', where they debate panpsychism versus illusionism, and explore cutting-edge thought on consciousness: / @mindchat

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4:02 - Do We Have a Private World?

10:00 - The Nature of Visual Experience

20:13 - Is Awareness Behavioural?

28:17 - Isn’t Introspection Itself a Private Experience?

33:04 - Philosophical Zombies

43:05 - What Motivates Illusionism?

50:02 - Psychedelics and the Dissolution of the Self

59:23 - Why Are Philosophers Always Categorising?

1:10:31 - Does Alex’s Triangle Exist?

1:21:40 - Is Pain Just a Reaction to Stimulus?

1:49:05 - Is Pain an Emergent Phenomenon?

1:55:52 - What Illusion Is Actually Happening?

1:59:07 - Can AI Be Conscious?

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Get Huel today with this exclusive offer for New Customers of 15% OFF with code alexoconnor at www.huel.com/alexoconnor (Minimum $50 purchase).For early, ad-free access to videos, and to support the channel, subscribe to my Substack.Adam Neely is an American bassist, YouTuber, and jazz musician based in New York City. His YouTube content includes Q&A videos, vlogs about performing music, and video essays about online music culture. As a musician, he performs with groups including the electro-jazz duo Sungazer and the instrumental band Aberdeen.Watch Adam's video on Suno here.TIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Music and Philosophy5:17 - Can You Cheat in Music?9:07 - What is Suno?25:20 - Can You Use AI Musically?32:21 - Is AI Just the New Sampling?38:40 - AI and Inclusivity46:21 - Is Music Becoming Narcissistic?57:26 - Does Great Art Require Ego?01:07:04 - Are AI Music Tools Inevitable?01:22:55 - How Would Adam Improve Suno?01:35:44 - Are We Removing the Humanity From Music?01:44:18 - Is Jazz the Blueprint? - CONNECTMy Website: https://www.alexoconnor.comSOCIAL LINKS:Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cosmicskepticFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/cosmicskepticInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/cosmicskepticTikTok: @CosmicSkeptic - CONTACTBusiness email: contact@alexoconnor.comBrand enquiries: David@modernstoa.co

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Nate Soares is an American artificial intelligence author and researcher known for his work on existential risk from AI. In 2014, Soares co-authored a paper that introduced the term AI alignment, the challenge of making increasingly capable AI’s behave as intended. Nate is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California.

Get the book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All. - TIMESTAMPS00:00 - Is This an Exaggeration?04:31 - What Is Unique About the Threat of AI?11:28 - What is Superintelligence?21:25 - From Chess Computers to Murderous Machines27:52 - What Really Drives AI Systems?44:29 - Evidence AI Is Already Turning Against Us56:03 - How We Are Helping AI Take Over01:01:21 - Why Would AI Seek Power or Control?01:07:42 - Some Worst-Case AI Scenarios01:18:38 - What Do We Do About This Now?01:32:53 - How Has AI Changed in the Last Six Months? - CONNECTMy Website: https://www.alexoconnor.comSOCIAL LINKS:Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cosmicskepticFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/cosmicskepticInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/cosmicskepticTikTok: @CosmicSkeptic - CONTACTBusiness email: contact@alexoconnor.comBrand enquiries: David@modernstoa.co

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00:00 - The Difference Between Intelligence and Consciousness

03:55 - What’s Stopping the Replication of Consciousness in AI?

17:01 - Can You Separate What the Brain Is From What It Does?

22:20 - Is Conscious Experience Just Predictions From the Brain?

26:48 - Why Do We Project Consciousness Onto LLMs?

37:27 - Can Consciousness Exist Without a Body?

42:25 - Why We Liken the Brain to a Computer

52:11 - Is There An Evolutionary Reason For Consciousness?

56:29 - Studying Unconscious Perception?

1:01:21 - Is Consciousness Unified? Split-Brain Patients

1:15:10 - Attention and Consciousness

1:19:04 - What Would a Conscious Chatbot Even Look Like?

1:25:13 - Consciousness as a Controlled Hallucination

1:34:19 - Do Scientists Actually Study “Consciousness” At All?

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