Duration : 00:36:10
The second part of the conversation with Elon Musk focuses on the engineering and innovation in brain computer interfaces and Neuralink. Musk discusses his belief in scientific methods and improving our understanding of consciousness without conflating it with human qualities like love and fear of mortality. He believes that, in the future, digital intelligence will outthink humans and be able to simulate consciousness perfectly, making it difficult to discern between human and machine. He offers the example of a super-intelligent digital entity that makes all the right inflections and movements of a human, making it indistinguishable. He concludes that digital intelligence may simulate consciousness so well that it may as well be consciousness as human beings understand it.