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Ep283 - John Searle | Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence

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The Question Is What Does the Technology Mean?

If you've got a program that'll drive my car without a conscious driver that's great. The question is not what can the technology do? My daddy was an electrical engineer for AT&T and his biggest disappointment was I decided to be a philosopher if I got sick instead of going to Bell Labs and MIT as he had hoped. Of course I know you're conscious but are you suffering when the angst of post-industrial man under late capitalism? Well I have a lot of friends who claim they do and I think I'm Philistine because I don't. We'd have to have a conversation about that. But for consciousness it's not a real problem in a real life case.

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