#138 Keith Frankish: Consciousness, Illusionism, Free Will, and AI

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Dr. Keith Frankish is a British philosopher and writer, currently living in Crete, Greece. He’s an Honorary Reader at the University of Sheffield, UK, a Visiting Research Fellow with The Open University, UK, and an Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Programme at the University of Crete. He works mainly in philosophy of mind, also with interests in other areas of Philosophy. He’s also the author of books like Mind and Supermind (2004) and Illusionism: As a Theory of Consciousness (2017). In this episode, the central topic is consciousness. We talk about what is it; the hard problem of consciousness; illusionism; the evolutionary origins and function of consciousness; how consciousness relates to questions surrounding free will and determinism. Toward the end, we also discuss a little bit if AI could spontaneously develop consciousness in any way, or if we would need to program it into it.  Time Links: 00:55 What is consciousness? 07:43 The hard problem of consciousness               15:33 Illusionism          28:26 Does phenomenal consciousness exist?      34:19 Why did consciousness evolve? What function does it serve? 43:59 Theory of mind, thinking about the future, and deliberation     50:37 Consciousness as an emergent property of the mind      59:01 Consciousness, free will, and determinism, and compatibilism   1:07:52 Could AI develop consciousness? 1:18:31  Follow Dr. Frankish’s work! -- Follow Dr. Frankish’s work: Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/y9ugk2vl Books: https://tinyurl.com/y8aeua4l Website: https://www.keithfrankish.com/ Twitter handle: @keithfrankish Other relevant links: Daniel Dennett’s books: https://tinyurl.com/y7s5g58s “The Meta-Problem of Conciousness”, by David Chalmers: https://tinyurl.com/yd8ej28n -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BRIAN RIVERA, ADRIANO ANDRADE, BERNARDO DO VALE CARIA AND YEVHEN BODRENKO! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g