Francis Crick called it “the Astonishing Hypothesis”: that consciousness, also known as Mind, is an emergent property of matter,…
Francis Crick called it “the Astonishing Hypothesis”: that consciousness, also known as Mind, is an emergent property of matter, which if true, indicates that all intelligence is machine intelligence. What distinguishes natural from artificial intelligence is not what it is, but only how it is made. Frank Wilczek, “The Unity of Intelligence.” In Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI, edited by John Brockman. 64-75. New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2019.