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#34 — The Light of the Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Are You Conscious?

We may build robots along lines that are not at all analogous to the emergence of our own nervous systems. And then we will, just then, i think it'll be somewhat mysterious whether or not this is conscious because we have cobbled this thing together. How would you feel if we met martians? Let's say they are intelligent martians who are behaviorly very sophisticated but evolved through a completely independent evolutionary process from aster. They got there in a different way. Would you have the same doubts about whether they might be conscious yet?

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