The other researcher taking part is Fernando Ernesto Rosas De Andraca whose area of expertise is another one full of conundrums.
“I took human consciousness as the weirdest thing I can think of,” he says.
“Our best guess is that consciousness is somehow generated by the brain but most people would argue that single neurons are not conscious.
“So you have these little parts that are not conscious, you put them together and they are conscious and that’s very strange.”
He also points to other arguments such as “the only thing you cannot doubt is your consciousness, but at the same time consciousness is this thing that nobody else can see so everybody else can doubt it”.
Elaborating further, Fernando brings up artificial intelligence (AI), declaring it as something he has become “completely obsessed” with.
“Most people believe that current AI systems are not conscious… but I think most people agree that there is no fundamental limits to say it will never be conscious so then the question is at one point it might become so,” he says.
“We then get into a different arena that we have to be concerned about things like creating a system that can suffer.”
