There are some who say immortality is available if we can upload our minds to a computer. This presupposes our minds are computable and can be duplicated by a computer. Are our minds computable? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Selmer Bringsjord discuss consciousness, cognition, and artificial intelligence.

Show Notes

00:39 | Introducing Selmer Bringsjord, Professor — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

| Introducing Selmer Bringsjord, Professor — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) 01:18 | Can computers fake all human behaviors?

| Can computers fake all human behaviors? 02:02 | Can computers duplicate all human behaviors?

| Can computers duplicate all human behaviors? 03:10 | Subjective measurement

| Subjective measurement 04:40 | The definition of cognition

| The definition of cognition 08:50 | Is consciousness is a special case of cognition?

| Is consciousness is a special case of cognition? 13:16 | Are consciousness and cognition non-algorithmic?

| Are consciousness and cognition non-algorithmic? 14:48 | Examples of cognition that are not computable

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