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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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The Technological Revolution and the Pandemic

I suspect that if the pandemic would have happened 60, 70 years ago, we would have had efficient lockdowns. We do no longer feel that we can afford to build a society where we enforce rule following. Our technology allows us to live in pods and allow our technology to encapsulate us into this world that is dissociated from the planet. And so what if that just becomes the baseline level? I don't think we had much of a choice about this, right, it was not like nobody knew.

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