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#559 Thomas Metzinger: Consciousness, Subjectivity, the Self, and the Ethics of AI

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Is There a Theory of Consciousness?

We don't have a theory of consciousness. So we don't bly, according to some theory, we are not conscious ourselves. I mean, we have this, i think the fundamental problem has been named by philosophers more than 30 years ago. The explanandum is not clear. It is for the scientists. People who hold on to the psychological umbrellaand folk psychological umbrella, term consciousness. And as long as you hold on to this term, then you can do our of stunts and tricks. You can to metaphysics.

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