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Galapagos: 5. Face to Face

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The Real Me Is Not Real, Just a Computer Program

Vath: I met you. In Zimbabwe, in Potolbut, in Cardiff. But where are you? This face on the screen here is how you've known me. The real me is virtual. You're not real at all if you're just some really fancy computer thing. Consciousness is just a really fancy brain thing. No, I can't quite believe that you are human somehow. You are a mind. I'm an extension of a human mind. So who did that? Who made you? The one person who really knows you.

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