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 PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysci PARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0b HOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album! Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-here Streaming: https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-here PARADIGM DRIFT https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show 00:00 Go! 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 #AGI #ArtificialConsciousness #MachineConsciousness #ConsciousnessStudies #QualiaResearch #AIPhilosophy #AIethics #AISafety #FutureOfAI #MindAndMachine #DemystifySci #physicspodcast, #philosophypodcast MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/ AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98 DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss MAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671