By ericvancewalton on Skatehive
The debate about whether or not AI has, or will ever, achieve “sentience” and “consciousness” has been dominating newsfeeds these past few years. People in Big Tech with a stake in it seem convinced, or more than likely have convinced themselves, that it’s inevitable as long as you dedicate enough compute to solving it. However, recent research is revealing consciousness is much more complex than we ever anticipated and may not work exactly how we thought. ## "My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration". - Nikola Tesla ## New studies seem to hint that Nikola Tesla may have been at least partially right about consciousness all along. Instead of consciousness originating somewhere inside our brains it might be something more like a signal originating from elsewhere that our physical bodies tap into or capture like an antenna. As a writer, I can attest to the fact that ideas sometimes come to me “out of thin air”.