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Is There Really a Hard Problem of Consciousness? - Dr. Joscha Bach, Artificial Intelligence Researcher

The DemystifySci Podcast

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"I don't think that you have to have a conception of self to have an experience," he says. "A personal self is something that is developed later and is much more specific." The idea that the entire theory rests on the emergence of the self out of a preconceptual agent doesn't totally make sense, according to him. He adds: "You need to have something like an attentional self to be conscious"

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