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Ep. 237: Reimagining the Internet

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Machine Consciousness

The internet looks like a giant brain, but it's probably not nearly connected enough for consciousness. The connections that make up the internet are too loose to have enough what's known as integration. There's a whole other theory about consciousness that has to do with the integration of machines. And if we look at these deeper questions of machine consciousness, the internet is probably not alive and can't be conscious.

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