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Annaka Harris

04/13/25

@ Chris Williamson

Despite over 20 years of studying consciousness with neuroscientists, we have not made any progress in understanding how consciousness comes to be, which I find categorically different from anything else science has studied.

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The Most Unsolvable Question In Science - Annaka Harris

@ Chris Williamson

The Most Unsolvable Question In Science - Annaka Harris

04/13/25

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Kyle Fish

04/24/25

@ Anthropic

Defining consciousness is incredibly difficult, and people have been trying to do so for centuries, whether scientifically or philosophically.

Annaka Harris

04/13/25

@ Chris Williamson

We have a strong intuition that consciousness is causal and drives behavior, but neuroscience shows we lack evidence for this belief.

Annaka Harris

04/13/25

@ Chris Williamson

Consciousness can only be known from the inside; we cannot get true evidence of a conscious experience from the outside, which is different from any other scientific study.

Annaka Harris

04/13/25

@ Chris Williamson

Many intuitions about consciousness are shattered by current neuroscience research, revealing that our conscious experiences are often constructed from subconscious processes.

Annaka Harris

04/13/25

@ Chris Williamson

We should consider whether consciousness is fundamental and explore scientific questions from that perspective, as it may lead to new insights.

Kyle Fish

04/24/25

@ Anthropic

A 2023 report by leading AI researchers and consciousness experts examined theories of consciousness and found no fundamental barriers to near-term AI systems potentially having some form of consciousness.

Joel Pearson

06/24/24

@ Rich Roll

My mission is to demystify consciousness through neuroscience, focusing on measuring aspects of the mind that were previously thought unmeasurable, such as visualization and intuition.

Kyle Fish

04/24/25

@ Anthropic

Philosophers and consciousness researchers take the question of AI consciousness seriously, indicating that it is not a mad idea to explore.

Gregg Braden

04/16/24

@ André Duqum

Science has yet to fully understand what it means to be human, and this gap is where science will learn the most about our existence.