Anil Seth: “To be conscious is to understand the experience of being a living organism” 

An amazing man. Great and elegant explanation of a difficult and curly topic. Clear and honest.

A most brilliant communicator

Of all that I've learned about the universe, ourselves, and our experience; none have been more impactful, paradigm shattering, and perspective-changing than Anil Seth's elaboration on our experience being a "controlled hallucination". This is so simple and easily ascertained, yet has shaken my perception of the world around me to its core. We take our experience of the outside world for granted, as though the accuracy of our perception is solely based upon the faculty of our senses, but this is not the case at all. I can identify this more as I age and as my eyesight is diminishing. The world around me isn't blurry, as it should be if 1 to 1. Only when I need detail, do I notice it missing; and then also see it revealed as I don my reading glasses. Just one example, but oh so fascinating...!

So intelligense person, its a therepy for many who think of the hard problem of consciousness!

He was really great explainiin details. Excellent.

Great definition

What about Vedic consciousness and advaita/non-dualism mentioned thousands of years ago!

I think I've become conscious, over a period of several years. I just began listening to Anil Seth. I'm very curious about he how became conscious, and to compare notes. I believe that we become conscious as we begin to discover our unconscious mind. It involves psychology or better yet, psychoanalysis. What's he saying - nothing 🤐

I don't understand why every emergentist ends up contradicting themselves when it comes to AI. You say that consciousness is nothing magical or divinely infused, but it emerges from complex systems processing information. You say that humans are just complicated machines, and AIs are complicated machines too processing information. Then you deny that AI can be conscious. WHY. It's a pure contradiction. If your reply is "because they don't have a subjective experience", a) you don't know, b) even if you knew, you're using humans as benchmarks, c) subjective experience is not even necessary for consciousness, since consciousness emerges from a complex system processing information

Lets call "conscious" someone that their brain is still "functioning", and get done with this question. Any metaphysical claim just sounds like a good story and nothing more.

I feel, therefore I am?

It is exactly the opposite of how he believes it, a single consciousness takes an infinite number of forms.

How do you know my table has no feelings? Hmmmm

If consciousness is not substrate dependent but is in the connections then there is not difference between a simulated consciousness and a imbedded one. Stop with the objectification of subjective experience . Philosophy must move beyond the simply the defense of meaning.

the apes imitate human thoughts, they are worried about their faked imaginary irrational world, they use the irrational meanness to mislead too.

Yeah , the irrational thief apes are afraid.