Episode 8.27: Because memory is the chief source of personal identity, a chatGPT can be self-aware.

We dedicate the episode to revisiting David Hume‘s brilliant description of the nature of personal identity in terms of the association of ideas and our memories of things, and we draw the conclusion that we’re we to facilitate and require a chat bot to store and be aware of and take account of the memories of its own output as a part of its contemporary input, that would overcome a principle obstacle to it becoming self-aware.