All content for Hacking State is the property of Alex Murshak and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
Exploring how technology changes our relationship to power, each other, and ourselves.
55 - Aneil Mallavarapu: Why AI Cannot Have Consciousness
Hacking State
1 hour 51 minutes 11 seconds
4 months ago
55 - Aneil Mallavarapu: Why AI Cannot Have Consciousness
Anieil Mallavarapu is a biochemist, award winning computer scientist, and Managing Partner at Humain Ventures; investing in early stage life science and health tech startups.
We talk about his pioneering work in systems biology at Harvard that led to the creation of Little b, a programming language for modeling biological systems with modularity and abstraction, the phenomenology of consciousness, the “hard problem” of consciousness, taking consciousness as fundamental, the limits of radical materialism, why our brains are not like classical computers, reconciling theories of consciousness with physics, the computational intractability of consciousness, the specter of AI civil rights, and Austin as the epicenter of the emerging science of the mind.
Aneil on X: https://x.com/aneilbaboo
His paper, "Programming with models: Modularity and abstraction provide powerful capabilities for systems biology"
Subscribe to my newsletter: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribe
If you enjoyed this talk, please leave a review on Spotify/iTunes.
Listen on:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexmurshak
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacking-state/id1689677076
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XB9XYULrAY4dp0qIJVvCg
RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingstate/feed.xml
Hacking State
Exploring how technology changes our relationship to power, each other, and ourselves.
