The Hard Problem of Consciousness

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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"

Last year, Rufus sat down with philosopher David Chalmers to talk about the allure of virtual reality, whether robots will ever achieve consciousness, and the likelihood that we’re living in a simulation (David thinks it’s about 25 percent). It was a fascinating, freewheeling conversation, and we left large chunks of it on the cutting room floor. Now, though, with ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms taking the world by storm, those unaired sections, many of which were about the ethics of artificial intelligence, feel super relevant. So today, we’re sharing our complete interview with David. Buckle up. It’s a wild ride.