The Importance of Consciousness

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There's more than one aspect to consciousness, just like when we talked to Stuart Bartlett about the meaning of life. I think there's a lot of different things going on in conscious creatures and some of them might appear in machines before others. But my credence is very high that essentially anything that can be done by a human being could in principle be done by machines.

Welcome to the May 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

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