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Ep 138: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 5: Minds II - Part the Second

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Is There a Theory of Consciousness?

Sam Harris is a very moral person. He wrote the book, the moral landscape. The man has been brought to tears on stage thinking about the cruelty visited upon young children in Islamic countries. So what is going on here? What's going on is a fundamental mistake that leads him to think that the possibility is we could have all of this stuff inside of this superintelligence but it might be missing consciousness. It might be missing the capacity to have an experience. And as I've said, we should err on the side of it does have consciousness when it's telling us it has consciousness. We don't know right now. But fallibly and indeed just relying upon Occam's razor deferring

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