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Is There Really a Hard Problem of Consciousness? - Dr. Joscha Bach, Artificial Intelligence Researcher
The DemystifySci Podcast
The Complexity of the Utility Function
When you find something meaningful, it means that you can also describe it. So for instance, if your meaning is to serve God, it mean that you are projecting some higher level agent in a similar way as a cell as part of an organism. That creates meaning that is more important than your individual existence. And so the reason that the robot isn't conscious is because the robot has such a narrow scope of options available to it that it's too simple. The minute that you create it is consciousness is the feeling of what it's like. This is what you need to produce. But hold on. Say I don't buy the idea that your uncertainty about whether you're going to reproduce is
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