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67 - When Science Meets Spirituality (Ft. Alan Lightman)

Why This Universe?

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The Consciousness of a Large Brain

The first-person experience is an inevitable consequence of a sufficiently large brain. Whether it's actually conscious or not is something that we can't know because we can't ever know what it feels like to be a computer. But any finite list of attributes of consciousness, I think that at some point in the future a computer will check all the boxes.

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