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AMA | November 2021

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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You Fooled the Robot in Room Two?

Flying waffle also asks a priority question regard ing the hard problem of consciousness. One basic observation is that we seem willing and able to talk about our subjective experiences with one another, even if imperfectly. On the flip side, if we ever build intelligent machines, and they're not conscious like we are, it seems hard to imagine how they could ever come up with that question spontaneously on their own. Could this all indicate tha consciousness is strongly linked to the formation and recollection of memories, rather than to cognition and intelligence?

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