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David Chalmers Thinks We May Be Living in a Simulation (and He’s OK With It)

The Next Big Idea

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

David Frum: How is it that a physical system, like a brain, should have subjective experience? Why does hooking up 86 billion neurons in the right patterns somehow give you the experience of consciousness? He says he doesn't see why there's a difference between say biology and silicon processes here. "I think the hard problem arises equally for both"

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