We're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it "reality". Nice talk by @AnilKSeth. ted.com/talks/anil_set…
"Consciousness has less to do with pure intelligence and more to do with our nature as living and breathing organisms. Consciousness and intelligence are very different things. You don't have to be smart to suffer, but you probably do have to be alive."
"We experience the world and ourselves with, through and because of our living bodies. What we consciously see depends on the brain's best guess of what's out there. Our experienced world comes from the inside out, not just the outside in."
"What it means to be me cannot be reduced to or uploaded to a software program running on a robot, however smart or sophisticated. We are biological, flesh-and-blood animals whose conscious experiences are shaped at all levels by the biological mechanisms that keep us alive."
"Just making computers smarter is not going to make them sentient."
