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David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Consciousness a Property That's Tied to the Physical Brain?
The way we're doing it now, at least with a standard VR, there's just one brain interacts with the physical world. And I think we'd typically say there's one consciousness here that nonetheless undergoes different environments and takes on different characters in different environments. But if you want literal splitting of consciousness into multiple copies, I think it's going to take something more radical than that. Like, maybe you can run different simulations of your brain in different realities and then expose them to different histories,. Then you'd split yourself into 10 different simulated copies, which then undergo different environments, and then ultimately do become 10 very different consciousnesses.
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