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Coevolution of Humans and Machines w/ Edward A. Lee

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I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

The author argues that consciousness is not a binary thing. Most of the living things around us, we would not ascribe any agency to. We don't hold them responsible for their actions and yet they're alive. So I look in my book at what it would take for those low-level mechanisms to develop into things that ultimately do involve agency.

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