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David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Consciousness a Crucial Component?
If we just had a universe of unconscious creatures, would anything be better or worse than anything else? Most people have a fairly clear intuition here. So if a robot is not conscious and can undergo subjective experiences then it matters morally how we treat them. I think at least maybe how we think about this stuff is fundamentally wrong. It's kind of a useful contrast class to raise questions like why aren't we zombies? And we're not like that.
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