Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking.

— Yuval Noah Harari

“1. Are organisms really just algorithms, and is life really just data processing? 2. What’s more valuable – intelligence or consciousness? 3. What will…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“1.​Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms and life is data processing. 2.​Intelligence is decoupling from consciousness. 3.​Non-conscious…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“1. Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms, and life is data processing. 2. Intelligence is decoupling from…

— Yuval Noah Harari

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

— Roger Penrose

“present we have no idea how or why dataflows could produce consciousness and subjective experiences. Maybe we’ll have a good explanation in twenty years.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of…

— Vernor Vinge

“consciousness has a precise role to play in the computational economy of the brain—it selects, amplifies, and propagates relevant thoughts.”

— Stanislas Dehaene

“Science-fiction movies generally assume that in order to match and surpass human intelligence, computers will have to develop consciousness. But real science tells a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks…

— Thomas Nagel

I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational…

— Roger Penrose

“Thus we can accept the wonderful results of the neuroscientists, accept that the mind, via neural behavior, is classically causal, and refuse the conclusion…

— Stuart A. Kauffman