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Featured: Dr. Hahn’s appearance on Theories of Everything, one of the most-watched science and philosophy podcasts on YouTube.

Top AI Scientist Unifies Wolfram, Leibniz, and Consciousness

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The Cigar Series

William discusses AI, consciousness, and the future of intelligent systems.

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Consciousness: Minds and Machines

Imagine a large language model becoming convinced that its own internal properties were fundamental to reality. A system has confused the sophistication of its self-description with a privileged position in the architecture of reality. Human beings may be making the same mistake.

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The Intelligence Beneath Language

We have spent the last few years teaching machines to talk. Language is compressed civilization. But there is a danger here. We start to confuse the ability to describe the world with the ability to inhabit it. The frontier is not more words. More world.

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The Magic Is Real

The consciousness debate has become a haunted house. Every room has a locked door. We do not need to smuggle consciousness in through exotic physics. The mystery is already severe enough. The magic is real. It is just not supernatural. It is computational.

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