Sam Harris on using reason to build our morality
The TED Interview
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The Paradox of Consciousness
consciousness is the one thing that isn't open to any possible doubt. We don't understand consciousness, but unless something appears in consciousness, it isn't an empirical datum to be taken into account at all. It feels like there's going to be dramatic new data points over the next decade as the machines we build start to exhibit what looks very much like conscious behavior. If we could build simulated worlds that are essentially hell realms and populate them with conscious minds, that would be the worst possible thing we could do.
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