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Ep. 192a - Philosophy of Mind and Artificial Intelligence w/Dr. Brian Cutter

Parker's Pensées

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What if an Identity Theorist Says, Okay, OK?

I think of like zooming in on your phone or something. Like you're viewing it at different scales. So I don't know, one kind of simplistic example would just be like a traffic jam. It's totally clear how that high level thing gets grounded in the individual behaviors of individual cars. And my claim, and I'm not idiosyncratic in this intuition, is that the emergence of consciousness from physical movements of atoms and neurons firing in this and that isn't intelligible to us.

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