Philosopher: brain oscillations key to consciousness may need new AI hardware
pgodfreysmith · x · 2026-10-06
Philosopher Philip Goff lays out a nuanced position on computational functionalism: there's no in-principle reason to think brain properties omitted from classical computational models are unimportant, and large-scale oscillatory processes — known to be empirically linked to consciousness — are among those omitted. Installing such oscillations in an AI would be a hardware project, not a programming one; whether something more easily computable could do the same coarse-grained job is harder. He'll discuss further at UCLA and Portland.
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