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Top Tech Voices Podcast S2 E3: Neuro-Tech and Brain Interfaces

JoRatcliffe

Episode Three of Top Tech Voices is here and it’s all about neuro-tech with Anil Seth - professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience. 

Grab a coffee, tea, beverage of your choice, and watch/listen in on your preferred platform to a conversation exploring: 

  • Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) - the developments realistically around the corner, and what is just science fiction (for now, at least!) 
  • How to train your brain to improve your mindfulness and attention span 
  • The idea that perhaps everything we experience is a controlled hallucination… 

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  • The concept of free will has always fascinated me since in college during one of the lectures of my professor he explained why there is no such thing as free will. This concept is still widely discussed in the neuroscience community. Seth defined free will not as an absolute control over actions but as a perception. This nuanced view highlights that free will is an experience generated by our brain’s interpretation of actions rather than an external spiritual phenomenon. When relating this to AI, I am asking myself: can AI ever possess free will if it fundamentally operates on deterministic algorithms and data-driven responses? Unlike humans, whose brains actively construct a sense of agency and intention, AI systems function based on programming and learned patterns without subjective experience. Therefore, even if AI were to simulate decision-making processes resembling free will, it likely would not embody the conscious experience of free will as humans do. This invites a deeper discussion into what it means for AI to have agency and how consciousness and free will might be exclusive to biological systems or if future AI architectures might evolve novel forms of agency distinct from human free will.

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  • The concept of free will has always fascinated me since in college during one of the lectures of my professor he explained why there is no such thing as free will. This concept is still widely discussed in the neuroscience community. Seth defined free will not as an absolute control over actions but as a perception. This nuanced view highlights that free will is an experience generated by our brain’s interpretation of actions rather than an external spiritual phenomenon. When relating this to AI, I am asking myself: can AI ever possess free will if it fundamentally operates on deterministic algorithms and data-driven responses? Unlike humans, whose brains actively construct a sense of agency and intention, AI systems function based on programming and learned patterns without subjective experience. Therefore, even if AI were to simulate decision-making processes resembling free will, it likely would not embody the conscious experience of free will as humans do. This invites a deeper discussion into what it means for AI to have agency and how consciousness and free will might be exclusive to biological systems or if future AI architectures might evolve novel forms of agency distinct from human free will.

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