{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep 11: Self Awareness and AI; Do Cylons dream of electric sheep?","description":"The guys start with definitions and a little talk about privacy of thought and asolipsism\r\nBruce asks about the granting of intelligence for argumentative purposes\r\nSean gives his definitions of the difference between virtual and artificial intelligence\r\nRyver asks how we might know the difference\r\nSean talks about the Turing test its strengths and weaknesses\r\nBruce asks if the god's eye view might not break the vision of intelligence\r\nthe guys toss around the notion of an AI having a virtual world to be compared to and whether or not it would know there was anything else outside its artificial world\r\nBruce likens the theoretical AI to a child learning about the world\r\nSean asks if the AI's reality would extend beyond the machine to the external world\r\nRyver asks how anonymity effects the ability to believe in the outside world\r\nBruce suggests that the AI may extrapolate a model of the outside world\r\nSean argues that it would not know this as another greater reality but more as if it were a game\r\nBruce suggests that it may view our world as a conspiracy theory\r\nSean suggests that to an AI the notion of our biological\/physical world would seem so alien as to be absurd\r\nRyver suggests that the inability to directly observe is the problem\r\nBruce suggests that the AI might be atheistic in regard to humans\r\nSean likens the AI's understanding of physical reality to our experience of dinosaurs if we had no evidence\r\nBruce points out that the topic has shifted to would an AI believe in us\r\nSean counters that this is a crucial piece because for an AI to know it is an AI it must understand that there are different intelligence\r\nBruce wonders if the AI's inability to believe in our intelligence isn't telling of our ability to believe in AI\r\nRyver brings us back to Cylon's\r\nSean talks a little BSG lore\r\nBruce points out that in order to question the AI's experience we first have to have granted that it has a Cartesian theater\r\nSean points out that arguing about whether or not a strong AI could exist is a bit of dead horse beating\r\nRyver brings up Moore's law and the kind of futurism that leads to asking questions about AI\r\nBruce talks about semantics and syntax as seen in John Searle's work and David Chalmers philosophical zombies\r\nSean talks about Cylon's levels of self awareness and the awareness of humans about the presence of Cylon's\r\nRyver talks about Cylon's and emotions\r\nSean brings up replicants and Blade Runner\r\nThe guys talk about the Voight-Kampff test and what it tells us about our ideas of humanity\r\nRyver relates this back to existentialism\r\nBruce talks about the desire for humanity\r\nSean relates the inability to differentiate to a kind of creeping nihilism\r\nRyver points out that Philip K Dick had always intended for the story to leave us unsure if Deckard the main character was himself a replicant\r\nSean talks about the 4 stages of nihilism in Nietzsche's work and the relationship between human and replicant\r\nBruce asks if a Cylon that doesn't know what it is becomes aware does that destroy part of who that “person” was before?\r\n \r\n\r\nThe guys kick around that it means to have your world view drastically changed suddenly\r\nRyver brings in the concept of dreaming and what we mean by it in the title\r\nSean breaks down sleep dreams and aspirational dreams\r\nSean takes the last word to puzzle a bit about why we find the topic of sci-fi, artificial intelligence, and what it means to be human so fascinating\r\nHelp keep the show going and the moon safe by supporting us on Patreon\r\nhttps:\/\/patreon.com\/Philosophy\r\nHelp keep us from disappearing by engaging us on the social media platform of your choice:\r\nhttp:\/\/www.philosophicalchaingang.com\r\nhttp:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/professormetal\r\nhttp:\/\/www.twitter.com\/PChainGang\r\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PChainGang\r\nhttps:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/PChainGang\/\r\nhttp:\/\/pchaingang.tumblr.com\/\r\n","author_name":"Professor Metal's Irate Debate and Calamitous Commentary","author_url":"http:\/\/www.PhilosophicalChainGang.com","html":"