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#96 - The Nature of Consciousness

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Problem With Machines

So what would we do if we have the goal or our core rate of consciousness? That was your question. The hardware doesn't matter. We need to know the flow of information. What is the computation that is carried out? Then we have to describe this on the right level of conceptual granularity. And if we have that mapping from our own phenomenology to fine grain computational descriptions, then we can see is this instantiated in a machine or not?

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