Jim continues his conversation with Serge Faguet, this time focusing on the nature of consciousness and its implications for the wise and ethical use of AI systems. They discuss a technological Singularity, the evolution & significance of consciousness, integrated information theory (IIT) vs. John Searle's arguments, whether current AIs exhibit consciousness, applying the golden rule to AIs, AI alignment, consciousness as solution to the combinatoric explosion of inference, the importance of systems thinking, an upcoming workshop on free will, virtue ethics without religion, building a decentralized nondogmatic religion, gender parity in GameB, Serge's move from entrepreneurship to full-time community-building, and much more.

Serge looks forward to receiving any feedback or expressions of interest at first.last@gmail or (better) first_last on Telegram.

Episode Transcript
JRS Currents 074: Serge Faguet on Building Metacommunity
"In Search of the 5th Attractor," by Jim Rutt (Medium)
Integrated information theory (Wikipedia)
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, by Max Tegmark
JRS EP 157 - Terrence Deacon on Mind’s Emergence From Matter
Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness, by Gerald M. Edelman
"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" by Thomas Nagel
JRS EP 170 - John Vervaeke and Jordan Hall on The Religion That Is Not a Religion