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328. Paul Bloom — Psych: The Story of the Human Mind

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Other Mind's Problem

Watson doesn't even know he's playing jeopardy. John Cyril famously said only brains can be conscious. This is just computationism, says David Wheeler. But one day you're going to be talking to a podcast guest and it will flag me an AI. And you will, and it will say, like I'm saying to you, I'm fully conscious. If I am conscious, I have rights. And I, you can't harm me. You can't kill me. Do you think this is just science fiction? It does eat no, there's no E and knowing or whatever."

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