consciousness is really the ability for us to be aware of the world around us. Sam Harris: If we build something that we think is conscious well then we have an ethical obligation to not send it into space. The risky frontier of space exploration so send a robot yeah and if these robots have sufficiently high AI and we named them then if we don't plan to bring them back or know this in advance we don't tell the robot that's murder.
Neil deGrasse Tyson investigates free will, morality, meditation, psychedelic experiences, artificial intelligence, and more alongside neuroscientist and author Sam Harris, comic co-host Godfrey, neurotheologist Andrew Newberg, and neuroscientist Robert Wright. You have no choice but to listen.
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