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#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Consciousness a Thing?
There's something very interesting going on in our minds. I'm slightly worried about the word special because it gets a bit nudges towards metaphysics and maybe even magic like, which I don't think is there at all. There's an idea of called panpsychism that says consciousness isn't everything. My sense is that consciousness is a thing but it isn't quite the thing or maybe very different from the thing that we instinctively think it is. It's there, it's very interesting but we may be in sort of quite fundamentally misunderstanding it for reasons that are based on intuition.
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