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

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

The idea of the philosophical zombie is producing everything without giving rise to fundamental experience, just mechanical. It's a philosophical thought experiment that requires you to divorce yourself from everything that you know about biology in order to make the claim. How can you have anything except for consciousness? You have experience, you have the mapping of expectation to frustration, and you're just, it just emerges from the most basic cell. That's what I mean about not understanding the hard problem of consciousness.

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