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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Is Consciousness?
I love imagination, I think it's like the most amazing thing we do. Life does something really interesting: It remembers states of the past to adapt to things that happen in the future. But what human level intelligence has done is quite different. We can imagine ones that have never existed, and we can actually make them come into existence. There's a very specific property that humans have. And where they are basically solving a problem because consciousness was invented or this abstraction was invented by evolution for a specific reason.
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