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Is There Really a Hard Problem of Consciousness? - Dr. Joscha Bach, Artificial Intelligence Researcher

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The Strength of Science Is in What It Allows Us to Achieve

Michael Levin's work suggests that our concept of life as cells isn't fully fleshed out. The way in which he characterizes the interaction between cells might include something like individual cells are not performing a particular task because they're mechanically forced to, but because they are bullied by the environment into this particular task. And so if we can control the desire of the cells by giving them the proper input, since we understand what it is that the map between input and desire, then we can get them to do crazy things. This kind of thinking is too vague for me. I think you need to be much more concrete.

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