What podcasts say about Brian Greene
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What Brian Greene has said on podcasts
141 statements · 56 positive · 57 negative · 2 mixed · 26 neutral
Conscious computer programs may be possible.
“in the back of my mind, I do think it's possible”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 0:28
Consciousness may be possible in computer programs.
“i do think it's possible that”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 0:29
Society should consider rights for conscious robots now.
“I think that's something we should think about now, actually.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 0:34
Society should consider whether robots are conscious.
“think that's something we should think about now, actually.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 0:34
An infinite universe would virtually guarantee distant copies of oneself.
“if the universe is infinite if you go sufficiently far out into space you're virtually guaranteed to find a copy of yourself out there.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 1:01
An infinite universe would virtually guarantee copies of individuals.
“if the universe is infinite, if you go sufficiently far out into space, you're virtually guaranteed. to find a copy of yourself out there.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 1:01
People should not feel insignificant because of cosmic scale.
“I would urge you not to.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 1:14
People should not feel insignificant because of cosmic scale.
“I would urge you not to.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 1:14
Anthropomorphic religious gods are largely human creations.
“that feels to me very much a human creation.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 1:29
String theory predicts vibrating filaments inside fundamental particles.
“inside an electron or inside a quark, you'd see a little tiny vibrating filament.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 5:32
String vibrations would produce different fundamental particles.
“The different vibrations of the strings in string theory... they don't produce different musical tones. They produce different particles.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 5:49
Current technology cannot directly observe string-theory strings.
“We don't have the technology to look sufficiently deeply into matter to see the strings.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 6:42
Current technology cannot directly observe string-theory strings.
“We don't have the technology to look sufficiently deeply into matter to see the strings.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 6:43
String theory would represent universal energy through string vibrations.
“if string theory is correct, the energy of the universe is manifested in the vibrational patterns of strings.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 8:43
Big Bang conditions determine subsequent string-vibration patterns.
“the detailed way in which that happened ultimately dictates how this or that string vibrates in the aftermath of that rapid cosmological explosion.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 9:04
Humanity may currently exist inside a computer simulation.
“we could be.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 13:00
The simulation hypothesis is logically consistent and possible.
“It is logically consistent and sensible to imagine that you and I are sitting in some computer.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 13:01
Current AI can simulate feelings without necessarily experiencing them.
“I think it can simulate that.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 15:27
Current AI can simulate emotions without necessarily experiencing them.
“I think it can simulate that.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 15:27
Current technology has not achieved genuinely conscious AI.
“I don't think today's technology is there.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 15:30
Future technology may produce self-aware artificial systems.
“Tomorrow's technology, broadly defined, a year, five years, 100 years, really will yield self-aware, sentient, artificial systems? Yeah, I do think it's possible.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 15:35
Human emotions are electrical impulses in the brain.
“I do think it is.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 17:34
Human emotions are caused by electrical impulses in the brain.
“I do think it is. I think that love and hate and anxiety and jealousy and gratitude and grief and all human emotion is nothing but electrical impulses going through our brains.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 17:34
The brain is not uniquely required for consciousness.
“I don't think there's something special about the brain as a substrate.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 19:05
The brain is not uniquely required for consciousness.
“I don't think there's something special about the brain as a substrate.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 19:05
Embodied artificial consciousness could be fundamentally equivalent to biological consciousness.
“I just don't see a fundamental difference between the artificial version and shall we call it the organic.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 20:00
Simulated worlds may eventually outnumber real worlds.
“I think there's a really interesting argument to be made that simulations will outnumber real worlds.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 20:09
People should live fully even if reality is simulated.
“I'm going to live out my life in this simulation to the fullest.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 20:32
Humans will likely collaborate with artificial systems.
“what will likely happen is something more in the middle, which is we are going to work with artificial systems.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 21:43
Humans will likely work alongside artificial systems rather than lose all control.
“what will likely happen is something more in the middle, which is we are going to work with artificial systems.”
Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian GreeneListen at 21:43
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