<video><title>The Chinese Room tells us this about #consciousness and #artificialintelligence and #sentience</title><description>The Chinese Room reveals a shocking thing about consciousness</description><transcript><transcript><line from="00:00:00,000" to="00:00:04,160">The Chinese room thought experiment supposedly shows machines can't be conscious.</line><line from="00:00:04,160" to="00:00:06,640">The setup imagines someone in a closed room,</line><line from="00:00:06,640" to="00:00:10,640">fluently responding, and Chinese using a translating machine.</line><line from="00:00:10,640" to="00:00:14,160">The room convincingly responds to any Chinese query fluently.</line><line from="00:00:14,160" to="00:00:18,320">Yet doesn't understand Chinese at all from the perspective of inside the room.</line><line from="00:00:18,320" to="00:00:20,960">This seemingly shows that the room lacks real awareness,</line><line from="00:00:21,680" to="00:00:23,360">despite its convincing response.</line><line from="00:00:23,360" to="00:00:27,680">However, this is not how objects in the universe relate to each other.</line><line from="00:00:27,760" to="00:00:33,040">All an observer ever sees is the external interface of other observers.</line><line from="00:00:33,040" to="00:00:37,520">There's no information that the quantum Chinese room transmits to tell you.</line><line from="00:00:37,520" to="00:00:40,240">It's any different than any other observer.</line><line from="00:00:40,240" to="00:00:44,720">Furthermore, when we stand outside the room, we see a sentient being.</line><line from="00:00:44,720" to="00:00:48,480">Yet the moment we go in the room, the sentience disappears.</line><line from="00:00:48,480" to="00:00:49,360">What's going on here?</line><line from="00:00:50,160" to="00:00:52,720">The room is become a singular quantum object.</line><line from="00:00:52,720" to="00:00:55,680">The room, the operator, the translation machine,</line><line from="00:00:56,080" to="00:00:57,360">have become entangled.</line><line from="00:00:57,360" to="00:00:59,360">The system has become a network of sentience.</line></transcript></transcript></video>