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Is There Really a Hard Problem of Consciousness? - Dr. Joscha Bach, Artificial Intelligence Researcher

The DemystifySci Podcast

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The Deterministic Behavior of Our Brains

The structure itself of this heritable information that is modulated over the course of your life and then passed down to your offspring through an epigenetic mechanism is basically the whole point of life. I think there's a romantic hope that we can break out of the genetic determinism by a magical epigenetic mechanism, but I suspect it's not going to work. Most of the transmission of information across generations happens by explicit communication between parents and children.

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