Does Humanity Even Want a Machine God? - Andrés Gómez Emilsson, DemystifySci #408

Part 2 of our recent conversation with Andres Gomez Emilsson asks
whether humanity should create machines capable of real
consciousness and intention. We explore how artificial minds
would feel, what they would desire, and why their motivations
might drift far from human needs. The discussion examines the
risks of building entities with their own internal harmony,
suffering, and evolutionary direction. What emerges is a sober
look at whether a machine god is something humanity actually
wants.





Part 1: https://youtu.be/sveAvEU9ZZQ





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00:00 Go! 00:00:00 Framing of artificial consciousness


00:05:39 Limits of simulation and what counts as real experience


00:10:10 Architectures that might support unified consciousness


00:13:17 Feeling, stakes, and the origins of motivation


00:16:02 Binding and coherence in biological and artificial
systems


00:21:19 Intention, internal experience, and projected futures


00:26:27 Should artificial consciousness be created


00:29:58 Why people want AGI and how bias shapes belief


00:35:29 AI as an amplifier of human intention


00:41:14 Tools for autonomy versus creating synthetic beings


00:47:04 Social divergence and the future of AI entrepreneurship


00:51:17 Artificial consciousness as a new lineage of life


00:57:06 Desire, autonomy, and alien motivation


01:03:35 Long-tail dynamics of conscious experience


01:10:47 Why standard suffering metrics miss the extremes


01:12:10 DMT and the treatment of cluster headaches


01:20:09 Consciousness distributed through the body


01:21:48 Psychedelics and large-scale system recalibration


01:26:13 Systems must contain a model of “better” to
self-organize


01:33:34 Physiological roots of consciousness and future
directions





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