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Michael Levin Λ Karl Friston Λ Chris Fields on The Meta Hard Problem, Consciousness, and Babbling

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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The Hard Problem - What Is the Format of the Answer?

i find it very hard to imagine if somebody claimed to have a good theory of consciousness, and i were to ask them ok, well, what is the prediction of your theory? In this particular case, know what the format of the answer looks like. Because numbers and the typical things we get don't do the trick ththt they're sort of third person descriptions. And so so is the answer? Does the answer come in the form of a poem? Is it art? Is it that, you know, something you have to literally plug yourself into to then have that experience? Like, what's the i find it different because i don't know what if we had a correct theory

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