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#84 - Landscapes of Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Uncertainty of Consciousness

i think consciousness is the variable that makes this potentially very interesting slash scary ethically and our uncertainty about the the physical basis of consciousness could make this just truly bewildering and uncanny. If we have built machines for whom there is nothing that it's like to be then any sense we have that these are objects of our moral concern is an illusion. I mean you're in the matrix with the other avatar is actually not being real people  I don't know what to hope for here but it's certainly weirdYeah so i've thought a lot more about consciousness maybe than most people or certainly I have but I have an assumption that maybe is a little different, he says.

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