Can AI Achieve Consciousness? — With Michael Pollan

Big Technology Podcast

Topics: AI | Science & Research | Technology

Bestselling author Michael Pollan debates if AI can ever achieve true consciousness, revealing human mind's unique essence.

●	Consciousness requires feeling grounded in bodily vulnerability and suffering capacity.

●	Global workspace theory explains how competing brain modules compete for conscious attention.

●	Current large language models lack embodied experience to generate authentic feelings.

"Feelings depend on things that I don't think computers have, which is to say mortal bodies that can suffer." - Michael Pollan