Robert TaFounder & CEO, Clarity · Building Hyper-Personalized Agents

AI Consciousness: Exploring the Inner World with Philosophy

17 Jun 2025

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This is a YouTube video titled "AI Consciousness: Exploring the Inner World with Philosophy" containing a monologue or talk by Jonathan discussing the concept of consciousness, referencing philosophical ideas such as Thomas Nagel's question about the subjective experience of being a bat, and mentioning a previous podcast involving Jonathan, Dean, and ChatGPT. The content explores the nature of consciousness as subjective experience and awareness.

What is consciousness? Consciousness is typically defined as a subjective experience, the felt sense of being or having an inner world. The philosopher Thomas Nagel famously asked, what is it like to be a bat? In a previous podcast, we actually asked that to ChatGPT and had a whole discussion with Dean on that. Jonathan, myself and Dean. And that's the test. If there's something it is like to be a thing, then that thing is conscious, right? So it's not just about information processing. It's awareness of the world, of the self, of feeling.