The Ghost in the Machine: An AI Perspective on the Soul [video]
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Speaking of Nominative Determinism, not only is his last name Bach, he covered Gödel's incompleteness theorem in the talk :-)
I will need to re-watch this at least one more time because it was so full of goodies. The Q/A was as good as the talk itself. 13/10 would watch again :)
https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5526_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201312291...
https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6573_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201412281...
https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7483-computational_meta-psycholo...
https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8369-machine_dreams
And if you understand German, he was also in the last Alternativlos Podcast where he talked about some ideas from this talk, but also some more
His Twitter [1] is also a fun and interesting place, check it out.
His model for explaining how brains organize thoughts (the 'easy' problem), does not address how the physical world allows for consciousness in the first place (the 'hard' problem c.f. David Chalmers https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/12/03/epis... ).
We have a reality - unless you deny it is running on something, even itself, then an object with the same characteristic of what is commonly referred to as God, is a consequence.
>We have a reality - unless you deny it is running on something, even itself, then an object with the same characteristic of what is commonly referred to as God, is a consequence.
That's a tautology: "reality exists, therefore God exists, given some arbitrary definition of God for some arbitrary definition of reality."
Atheists don't believe in God - any God, or Gods (because consider that there are many from the Judeo-Christian complex to the ancient 'pagans' to the nameless spirits of shamanism and animism) because no religion has provided any credible evidence of their supernatural claims, not because concepts like Godhead and the Trinity are incomprehensible.