“For a long time, many different parties and factions in AI, adherent to more than one ideology, have been trying to build AI without understanding consciousness. Unfortunate habits of thought will already begin to arise, as soon as you start thinking of ways to create Artificial Intelligence without having to penetrate the mystery of consciousness. Instead of all this mucking about with neurons and neuroanatomy and population encoding and spike trains, we should be facing up to the hard problem of understanding what consciousness is.”
How is this different from saying,
“For a long time, many different parties and factions in AI, adherent to more than one ideology, have been trying to build AI without understanding consciousness. Unfortunate habits of thought will already begin to arise, as soon as you start thinking of ways to create Artificial Intelligence without having to penetrate the mystery of consciousness. Instead of all this mucking about with neurons and neuroanatomy and population encoding and spike trains, we should be facing up to the hard problem of understanding what consciousness is.”