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#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry
Lex Fridman Podcast
Optogenetics: Can You Turn Consciousness on and Off Like a Light Switch?
The flip side could be with optogenetics. There's an engineering question. Can you turn consciousness on and off like a light switch? Okay. So here's exactly where consciousness frames the problem extremely well. And it frames it the following way: We can stimulate 20 or 25 cells in the visual cortex of a mouse and we can make it behave as if it's seeing something that isn't there. Now let's do a thought experiment, a gondankin experiment. Let's say we could do the same thing for every single neuron in the brain of a human being. Would you be feeling that same inner subjective sense? Stimulus is gone. Every neuron is doing the same thing
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