Is There Such a Thing as a You?

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Quantum mechanics is very different from what you and you and me perceive as the world. There are no colors and sounds in the physical world. There only exists in the game engine generated by your brain. And then you have ideas that cannot be mapped onto extended regions. Both interact in our mind to produce models of the world. But we already know that the physical world is nothing like that right? Yes but we always knew that. When did we know that? I think that's mostly a confusion about concepts.

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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:15) – Life is hard
(09:38) – Consciousness
(16:24) – What is life?
(26:33) – Free will
(40:38) – Simulation
(42:49) – Base layer of reality
(58:24) – Boston Dynamics
(1:06:43) – Engineering consciousness
(1:17:12) – Suffering
(1:26:06) – Postmodernism
(1:30:25) – Psychedelics
(1:43:40) – GPT-3
(1:52:22) – GPT-4
(1:58:47) – OpenAI Codex
(2:01:02) – Humans vs AI: Who is more dangerous?
(2:17:47) – Hitler
(2:22:44) – Autonomous weapon systems
(2:30:11) – Mark Zuckerberg
(2:35:47) – Love
(2:50:00) – Michael Malice and anarchism
(3:06:57) – Love
(3:11:05) – Advice for young people
(3:15:42) – Meaning of life