Homo Deus: a Brief History of Tomorrow - with Yuval Noah Harari
Ri Science Podcast
Is Consciousness a Good Idea?
One theory is that humans, the ultimate value of humans, will be just as consumers. That will dono i useful atolics but the economy needs consumers. In a very simple system you can have corporations managed by algoritms which mines ore iron and produces robots who then sell back to the mining corporation. And you don't need any humans as consumers. Nobody. But this is how the economy functions. So also consciousness. It has no practical purposes at all. It's just a kind of pollution created when these billions of noirons are ring. I personally m not very feel very good about this explanation; we must keep on researching.
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