Eric Siu explores whether AI could merge with human consciousness and enable digital immortality, while arguing we should be humble about what we actually know. Consciousness itself remains largely mysterious, as do fundamental questions like God's existence.
with AI. Do you see us merging our consciousness with machines? That's something I see potentially happening, and maybe your physical body dies, but then you live on forever. How do you see it? I think as a species, we would be a lot better off if we use the words I don't know more often. Nobody knows what consciousness is. There's been feeble attempts at measuring it. We don't know much stuff. Like, is there a God? We don't know. Like, no one knows. And yet in our space of not knowing, it doesn't prevent us from speaking and acting as though we know. But if we really truly are sober about what we know, we don't know a lot more than we know.
