37. AI and the Evolution of Consciousness (w/ Gregg Henriques)
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The Role of the Nervous System in the Evolution of Consciousness
Michael Evans: When people say, hey, is that guy conscious? They're not talking about sentient's really. And I am not saying that there's something that is like to be a bacteria and we can get into them. He says the nervous system creates an informational modeling of the organism environment relation. This is why any child can go into the woods and notice every society makes a distinction between birds, bees, squirrels as animals and flowers and mushrooms,. he writes.
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