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Special: Guru Right to Reply with Robert Wright

Decoding the Gurus

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Is Consciousness a Challenge to Science?

consciousness doesn't exist, some people believe this, or they say it's an illusion. Or consciousness exists, but doesn't do anything. So there are two different kinds of challenges that consciousness can pose to science. And i submit that whatever happens in the future with the robot, one of those kinds of challenges will be posed. Either that robot won't have consciousness, and we'll say to scientists, will then, why does conscious ness exists in humans? It is an emergent property of a bunch of physical things getting together, heaving. The immaterial stuff that intervenes in a way we can't even think about clearlyi it's not kind of mechanistic.

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