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EP 172 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism

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The Light Switch Is Conscious

I consider that pretty good little old me against Christoph Koch. He is a strong IIT guy, right? You know, he actually does believe a light switch is conscious and we had a quite interesting conversation. The usual stack goes something like consciousness is the opposite of being asleep, or particularly in deep anesthesia or coma. So there is some sense of what it is to be you, but you might be smart intelligent at all, very, very unintelligent, still be fully conscious.

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