I found the content of this talk to be comforting. The idea of humans who don't understand or have a clear and coherent definition of consciousness being able to create it has obvious undesirable elements. Imagine a cave man getting his hands on a nuclear weapon. He could kill and cook his mastodon in one fell swoop. Also everything near and not so near the mastodon most likely including the cave man.
Anil Seth does a pretty good job of suggesting that we are unlikely to have to face the modern equivalent of that scenario in the near future. Again, I find his reasoning comforting.
No comments:
Post a Comment