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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Is Consciousness?
The average human brain consumes 250 to 300 calories a day. Three bananas results in a computation that's about a million times more powerful than the current state of the art computers. You talk to somebody like Penrose who you've had on the show. And even though the Penrose hammer-off conjecture is probably not right, might be the case where we're actually having to look at stuff happening at the level of quantum computation of microtubules? I'm arguing that we don't know how big the unknown unknown set is.
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