Is Consciousness Illusion?

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I've already tried to answer it in various places, because i thought, like, maybe he's getting just tired answering. I'm working on a book entitled, well, he's definitly not working on a books. The real suffering happens in my body and the world,. It's the real me that suffers. The body does the suffering. Could we ever build a robot that has beliefs? What would it take? Di, start getting stressed out when we ask thea ha, the difference between human beings who can ascribe desires of convenient fictions and robots who appear to have beliefs is this like a schiclitz version of eric Schlichwitz.

David and Tamler find themselves unable to attach rational meaning to a single act in their entire lives. Let’s say we publish more articles and books. What then? What about our kids? They’re going off to college. Why? What for? We think about the future of the podcast. Let’s say we get bought out by Spotify and become more famous than Joe Rogan, Dolly Parton, and even Yoel Inbar -- more famous than all the podcasters in the world. So what?

And we can find absolutely no reply.

Plus, we take a test to determine whether we can we tell an AI apart from an analytic philosopher. When should we start getting scared of what AIs are gonna do to us, or what we’re doing to them?

*Note: the main segment is on the first half of Tolstoy’s great memoir "A Confession," but you don’t need to be familiar with the text to appreciate the discussion for this one.