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The speaker says a relatively simple transformer can learn a wide range of complex material with no obvious limit, and suggests consciousness may have a similar relationship to its underlying algorithm.
Unresolved speaker · Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach) · 2 Nov 2026
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“There are so many things that this simple algorithm can learn, and there is no obvious limit to what it can learn. And so maybe consciousness is like this.”40:03Report a misattribution
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