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The Skeptics Guide #925 - Apr 1 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Solipsism Argument for Sensitivity

Lambda doesn't have a brain, it's something completely different. I'm not making the argument that you need biology to be sentient. It's just that where is the physical mechanism of the sentience in Lambda? Even if it's just software,. But yeah, but it's... It's in its neurons, the same as yours. My neurons have specific circuits that we can identify that are the neuroanotomical correlates of my emotions, my feelings, my sense of... That's not true. There absolutely are circuits in the brain that make us feel that we're inside our body. We do not have that analog with lambda.

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