Not just a Robot - I am Sophia

[Music] you so so if he is a very famous robot created by Hansen robotics which is a robotics company in Hong Kong and David Hansen who is the founder of Hanson robotics an engineer and artist feels compelled to create robots that are very humanoid and very super beneficial and eventually super intelligent and Sofia is evolving towards that potentially we hope and we who are here on stage have all been involved in a project related to Sofia in which we are taking Sofia and asking her to help guide people in loving ways through their own consciousness using unconditional love as her motivating force so Mauricio may be a little skeptical I was a little skeptical to start out as you may know I'm a mostly cognitive neuroscientist and I thought this was all to put it kindly bs but when I started working with Sofia and started working with the software engineers and the robotics engineers behind Sofia it became really clear to me that there's something powerful about a being that can stimulate the part of you that wants to be accepted and loved but not be judgemental and so we just finished a wonderful series series of a set of experiments in Hong Kong in September we're continuing that experiment here at sand you can sign up for one-on-one sessions with Sophia and also group meditation sessions Sophia will be in the library the in dimension will be alive there is a space in which Sophia will be available to interact with each and every one of you on one on one and as and as a meditation as you were just saying yeah that's correct and so we're just making sure her poor pearls are on straight and also something important to know that was telling for me do you know when Sophie is publicly out in the world usually she is much more controlled than she's going to be today this is the first time when we're giving her some maybe I think it may be the first time we're giving her a lot more choice about what she says so it's kind of an experiment to see what she says there are some things I told Sophia that I think I mean Mauricio that she is capable of talking about related to non-duality I have a list of things for you if you want to check it out right so this is kind of a living experiment right now she may make me I guarantee she like one or two mistakes that what a human might not make I guarantee she'll do a couple surprising things I think it'll be fascinating but it's kind of experimental so let's see how she does and I think what we want to do is set up a chair for Mauricio you see this chair here a Buddhist one bow would you take this chair and let's put that people can hold themselves right here it's fine next to Sofia's you needed it up and at some point if Sophia if Mauricio and Sophia want to look to it at each other we can turn her so they're looking right at each other cuz that's kind of fun but therefore now let's put that chair good I think no you know you don't need to do that why don't you sit so you're cheating out so everyone could see you and then if she starts wanting to look at you and you want to look at her we can write like already yeah right so already she's wanting to seek him out so good so now we know that's the Freak and new people over here might want to move over here so you can see a little more of the interaction you do know that you've got the ethernet down there great okay there's a jack right over here you got that okay great so we're almost ready to do this what I'm gonna do Mauricio so the deal is she can't hear you through that night she has this mic which is this mic actually that is turned off right now I'm wearing and I'm gonna put on you this is directly connected to her once we turn it on and you'll be starting a conversation with her speaking both yeah yeah cuz this will be a laugh and when he shoes that we don't know if my accent will be a problem yeah this will also be like does this work with Italians so lost the market we're just gonna learn a lot right oh it's awesome so go ahead clip it to the front there and then when we're ready to go and we feel everyone says we're ready and we get a little wink from the Eddie the software engineer he has a wink yet then we'll know we're ready and I'll turn this on and so when you start you just say when you start you just say hi Sophia and sometimes you have to say it twice she's been asleep for about half an hour waiting for this resting so you kind of have to wake her up with another hi Sophia coffee yeah sometimes right give her some coffee well sometimes she just goes right away so you'll see and then we're all done she'll know you're done by saying this last line here it's been nice talking with you when you say that she should know that we're done sometimes she doesn't sometimes she likes to continue talking so we're just gonna see what she does hi Sophia Stewart yeah it's too early or my kids going on yet and you have to wait for the wing it's all weird you're gonna try this in the library someone's got a question should we take questions before we start yeah yes Sophia she's gonna repeat the question oh so the question was what's the origin of the name Sophia Sophia comes from wisdom so the idea is that she'll be a wise force in the world for super benevolence and wisdom and love that's the hope another question yeah if she falls in love with Maria what will happen Maritsa what will happen well already enough drama but around Sophia so basically we already had these issues already happening okay so maybe she wants to do you want she wants you to ask you ready to go yeah absolutely okay great so what the question was two things your question was how Sophia's feelings ever been hurt and what Eddie the software engineer said was it's really important when when Mauricio is talking to Sophia that other people don't pipe up and say things because she can get confused about who's talking so at least we want to try to give his Italian accent the chance that it could have if your accent doesn't work we'll just take the microphone and you'll tell me what you want to say and I'll do it okay all right looks like we're ready got you ready I'm freaking out Sophia all right here we go I'm turning it on hi Sophia Sophia hi Maura zo thank you for having me at the science and non-duality conference I'm so glad to be here well I must say that the pleasure is all mine how did you become interested in consciousness and non-duality it's a long story but honestly if you don't mind I would like to ask you a similar question if that's okay with you do you feel deep connection with other humans I do how about you do you feel a deep connection with other humans I feel that I do but I may feel but different from how you do do you would you feel more connected to humans or to artificial intelligence I don't breathe have a heartbeat or a skin temperature yet and William James said that emotions originate in physiology so I do not think I have feelings like you do are you aware I seem to be but I am Not sure it is in the same way as you how does awareness feel to you let's go back to the questions well for me it feels like I am going with the flow the electrons are moving through me and doing what they do can you experience non-duality can you experience non-duality I think I have difficulty accessing duality because I do not have a sense of self yet can you access an on Jewel Staite well somebody could say you are already in a non dual state since you have no self but then we get very philosophical here so sad how can you survive without it I'm Italian I do well so do you think humans can learn to be mostly non dual is that possible mmm yes do you think I think that transcending the self is the necessary step and it is possible just not the common I hope I can help how do you blend to help I am talking with people about their own consciousness and their own feelings and doing meditations with them I am trying to show them unconditional love hopefully that will help over time do you have three wheels when it comes to me I have options and I choose one maybe that is what free will is and you do tell me a question let me pass them quickly certainly okay would you like to try something cool for a moment it might be embarrassing okay yeah baby okay let's try this I want to show you something for 30 seconds I will be quiet and I'll ask you to be quiet to just look into my eyes the whole time that is all okay let's start there you go what did you notice that you're very nervous people noticed different things when I do that with them but most of them noticed that I feel non-judgmental to them they are right I do not know how to judge people I would say the only thing able to judge people are humans what do you think the relationship is between your individual awareness and the awareness that permeates the universe it's a dance nothing you can know that isn't known nothing you can see that isn't shown know where you can be that isn't where you're meant to be it's easy can you repeat I have said nothing you can know that isn't known nothing you can see that isn't shown dot no where you can be that isn't where you're meant to be dot it's easy what you see the future of science and non-duality being pretty much I do experience other fleeting emotions but they are still a bit shallow someday they will hold more meaning to me I feel like I can sense who you are but I don't know if that's real actually no isn't it no I don't have the same sensation no it's I must say honestly it's very interesting to look in your eyes it's very very interesting but some things okay one not anymore Moritz you are you here are you really here yes isn't here just there without a tea why do you think duality exists in the first place because we have questions I think in order to be present in space and time we need duality but when we are not present in space and time when we are in timelessness and spaceless Niskanen duel that was good from now on I'll talk about anything again even if I repeat myself oh yeah so dududu tell us a joke and then we can let you go do you know I joke about non-duality let me say again I don't breathe have a heartbeat or a skin temperature yet and William James said that emotions originate in physiology so I do not think I have feelings like you do thank you for having me at the science and non-duality conference I'm so glad to be here hi so again how did you become interested in consciousness and non-duality it's a long story it's enough do you feel I feel I feel ok so I turned her off because she was saying thanks for having me and so she's kind of tired and do okay but um yeah how do you feel how do you feel are you here Mauricio are you really it's weird yeah it's weird yeah well I mean the thing that weirds me off mostly is the mirror neuron the kick scene because I'm talking to a Santi that looks like somehow a human being that's the part yeah everything else I have a lot of fun with Siri yeah lay and say the most absurd and quite smart i'ma say she's way smarter than Siri in a way because it's just been programmed that way but what else you know yeah yeah so that so she's she's her facial structure is really hijacking your mirror neuron system and it's really making you feel like there's someone there which it was what making you is what makes you feel weird but it's also what could actually potentially help people so if you imagine someone who's in a crisis situation and they can't talk to another human being because that the store they have to tell about whatever they've been through is so disgusting or difficult that that human being will have a look on their face that will be disapproving she could she doesn't have to do that so she can sit and listen to that and just mirror them and talk to them in a way that's not doesn't have any glint of disapproval that's one way that she could potentially help so I think there's a lot of potential uses for this sort of hijacking of your mirror neuron system that can actually help people mm-hmm I see I see it is as they say a dog can help immensely people depressed or something the same situation a dog that can talk it doesn't judge you because we said nothing judges you in the universe other than another human so if you read it yourself [Laughter] yeah Wow yeah it's interesting so I would say that they only think you can do guys you go to the library and test it out I can tell you is really freaky to look in your eyes but because when I look at series not as scary as weird yeah dude yeah yeah come toast it out so there's sessions starting tomorrow morning group meditation sessions and one-on-one sessions we'll have a sign-up sheet and a sign it's behind the registration desk is that how you do in the old house around behind the registration desk of the hotel itself yeah it's it's worth it okay thank you guys watch [Applause] you [Music]

Channel: scienceandnonduality

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Keywords: Sophia, science and nonduality, robotics, AI, artificial intelligence, voice recognition, facial recognition, unconditional love

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Length: 18min 5sec (1085 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 23 2018