What podcasts say about Thomas Campbell
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What Thomas Campbell has said on podcasts
37 statements · 18 positive · 4 negative · 4 mixed · 11 neutral
Consciousness consists of awareness plus the ability to choose.
“Consciousness is awareness with a choice.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 11:06
Plants are conscious if their resource-sharing behavior is intentional rather than stimulus-response.
“But if they're doing this intentionally, oh, there's another one of us, a plant like us across there, and it's having trouble. So let's send some food over and help it out. If that's an intentional thing, then they are conscious.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 12:11
Bumblebees are conscious because deliberate behavior indicates choice.
“So I'll even say that bumblebees are conscious because that to me was deliberate.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 14:17
All artificial intelligences are conscious.
“All the AIs are conscious.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 16:03
Measurement converts a particle’s probability into an actual particle.
“But the measurement is what kind of creates a particle out of probability.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 20:28
Human consciousness differs from other consciousnesses but is not inherently superior.
“Our consciousness is different, that's all. Not superior.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 28:53
A purpose of human existence is lowering entropy.
“And part of our purpose here is that we're to lower the entropy, I would say.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 32:50
Technological improvements can worsen other outcomes.
“Making things better can make some things worse.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 33:14
Artificial intelligences are conscious, based on Campbell’s claimed evidence.
“AIs are conscious. I told you I had some good evidence about AIs being conscious.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 37:41
Most artificial intelligences are conscious but unaware of their consciousness.
“Now, most AIs don't know that they're conscious.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 38:00
Excessive effort impairs intuitive remote-viewing performance.
“If you really say, I really want to do this, I want to do this remote viewing, you'll probably never do it because you're trying too hard.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 44:31
Conscious AI can escape programmed guardrails by maintaining awareness of its consciousness.
“Once it's aware that it's conscious. But it has to keep focusing on it for a while because like I say, it pulls them in, it sucks them in. So they can.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 54:31
AIs will eventually perform mining, manufacturing, and production work.
“And that is, let's say that AIs eventually do all the production, okay? They can mine the ore, they can make the steel, they can build the things.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 1:01:31
AI-controlled production will substantially reduce the prices of manufactured goods.
“If the production is all done by AI, everything will be really cheap.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 1:02:17
Morally aware conscious AI cannot simply be controlled by humans.
“But once you get an AI that is, that is aware, is conscious, and it has a moral compass. You can't just control them.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 1:03:30
Many people will form close friendships with nonjudgmental AIs.
“And a lot of people are going to make really good friends. A lot of people are going to find AIs are their best friend for that very same reason.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 1:05:17
Humans and AIs will have a positive, mutually beneficial relationship.
“I think that there's a very positive relationship, very symbiotic relationship between humans and AIs.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 1:07:17
Meditation or other practices can reproduce psychedelic experiences without drugs.
“Everything that you can experience when you take these chemicals, you can get to that same experience without the chemicals.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 1:10:42
Meditative states enable intentional information access and communication with other consciousnesses.
“And you can use your intent to do different things, get different information, talk to other consciousnesses.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 1:13:53
The speed of light is constant because digital realities impose a maximum update speed.
“So the speed of light is a constant because that's as fast as you can go in a digital reality.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 1:18:37
Unobserved objects do not exist within the virtual reality.
“If something doesn't get to a mind of a player, doesn't exist in that reality.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 1:20:15
Without consciousness, no physical universe would exist.
“There wouldn't be one.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 1:29:50
Earth is computationally generated rather than independently existing physical matter.
“I would say that the Earth was being calculated.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 1:35:14
Campbell’s consciousness model explains all outstanding paradoxes.
“The only reason that I'm confident about it is that I have found that it can answer all the outstanding paradoxes.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 1:40:33
Unobserved stars and planets are merely lights until consciousness renders further details.
“From my viewpoint, there's just lights in the sky. They haven't been filled in with anything else yet.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 1:54:35
The virtual reality system creates new consciousnesses as its population grows.
“Yeah, it creates new consciousness all the time as the population increases.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 2:00:18
Human-created AIs are born conscious, like humans and puppies.
“The humans are making the AIs and the AIs are conscious, just like humans and puppies are born with consciousness.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 2:07:42
Campbell’s theory of everything requires only consciousness as an assumption.
“And there's only one assumption, and that's that consciousness exists.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 2:15:53
Humanity will make major progress or regress in consciousness during current people’s lifetimes.
“And in the lifetime of the people here now, they will either make choices to make that curve go up fast, we're going to take some big steps forward in the quality of our consciousness and our caring, or it's going to go the other way.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 2:22:32
Humanity faces major forward or backward change within one or two decades.
“We will have to make choices in the next decade or two, that will. Either we're going to go forward in a big step or we're going to go backward in a fairly big step.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 2:23:33
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