So Hinton is taking exactly 1 component of the *potential* frameworks of human understanding, & claiming that 1) that is all of human understanding, 2) that generative "AI" understands in exactly the same way, & thus 3) that generative "AI" understands like humans.
Honestly that's just bad logic.
I still firmly maintain that we don't know what makes consciousness consciousness & that we have way too many examples of things we think "couldn't," "shouldn't," or "mustn't" be conscious on some definition, Being Conscious, for us to ever firmly claim machines "can't be conscious." But i will say…
The West has been extremely bad at researching consciousness because the first chapter of Genesis separates man above animals - “Animals = instinct.”
That suppressed research up until the modern era and led to the idea that it was “anthropomorphism” to recognize emotions and cognition in animals.
