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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life

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Is Consciousness Beyond Knowledge?

I don't consider it important. Let's just put it that way. Because it's in the category of things that it would be nice to know, but I think it's beyond knowledge. So when you say it's not sufficiently well, it's not even known well enough to be able to formalize it in order to ask a clear question. But that doesn't mean it's not eventually going to be formalized. Maybe consciousness will be understood some some day. But the last time I checked, it was still 200 years away.

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