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What if bumblebees can play football? Not metaphorically, but literally. Research shows that insects are capable of learning, can play without external reinforcement, and display forms of behavior once thought to be available only to mammals.
Does this mean that they have consciousness? What about octopuses, whose tentacles can act independently of one another? Where, in general, is the line between the living and the thinking, between an organism and a subject?
In this episode of the podcast “Non-Artificial Intelligence,” Gleb Solomin discusses these questions with Anton Kuznetsov — Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, and research fellow at the Center for Consciousness Studies. The conversation centers on the concept of mind: how philosophers and biologists understand it, whether artificial intelligence and aliens can possess it, what could go wrong with brain-computer interfaces, and whether we really live in a simulation.
https://youtu.be/zmCAdIXVQgM?si=FjdEP7rxuRIcHeA1
