Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "What sleep teaches us about consciousness | Matt Walker and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. A heart / lung machine does the job of your heart and lungs (aerating and circulating blood) while doctors are operating on you, and your own organs are "turned off". I could imagine a "brain" machine that could give you the experience of consciousness even if your brain had the demonstrable characteristics of sleep / unconsciousness. Does anyone have any ideas on how you would build such a thing? It seems to me that if you could demonstrate the (subjective) experience of consciousness even while provably asleep, that would demonstrate that machines could be conscious.
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  2. AI neural nets in that they depend on a multitude of connections to make decisions, seem to me to be equivalent to intuition. Consciousness seems more like an expert system - more linear. If neural nets are analogous to intuition, what would be analogous to conscious thought?
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  3. The best way to create a new consciousness is to have unprotected straight sex, I guess.
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