Why Digital Minds Can’t Wake Up - Andrés Gómez Emilsson , DemystifySci #407

Digital systems can imitate intelligence, but they cannot form
the unified inner world that makes a mind awake. Andres Gomez
Emilsson explains why coherence, boundaries, and lived
integration are essential features of consciousness that code
alone cannot replicate...yet. The conversation explores the
limits of simulation, the illusion of depth in generative models,
and why machine behavior is not the same as experience. What
emerges is a clearer picture of where digital minds stop and
where our minds begin. If AGI is really our goal, we seem to be
going about it all wrong. And that's a big "if."





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00:00 Go! Rethinking intelligence in machines


00:05:16 Introducing the Co-sentience Initiative


00:08:24 Limits of digital consciousness


00:13:03 Why simulated systems fall short


00:17:24 Beyond local update rules


00:22:32 PageRank and boundary-based consciousness


00:29:10 Consciousness as boundary-constrained integration


00:33:06 Why AI lacks human-like expression


00:36:17 Will, personality, and authentic agency


00:43:32 Consciousness as veilance optimization


00:47:01 Harmony, surprise, and predictive filtering


00:53:45 Will, intuition, and deeper internal drives


01:00:18 Selfhood, subagents, and integrated experience


01:07:28 Simulation vs physical implementation


01:13:29 Power without consciousness





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