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#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is Consciousness Relative to the Observer?

I think that the emulation of something is that something if there exists in that system, a black box that's full of mystery. So does that mean that consciousness is relative to the observer? Like could something be conscious for us, but not conscious for an alien that understood better? Yes. And so it looks like magic to us. But once we understand the inner machinery, it stops being magic.

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