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Is Reality an Illusion? - Professor Donald Hoffman, PhD

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How to Boot Up Consciousness in an Artificial Intelligence

In most approaches to understanding consciousness, the assumption at least for human consciousness and animal consciousness is that brains are going to be fundamental somehow or embodied brains. So of course, some machines can think and be conscious. But in this physicalist framework, we have quotes like this from John Searle at UC Berkeley. The brain is a machine. It is a conscious machine. And if this is right, the idea is that eventually, once we understand the program in the brain that is running human consciousness, your consciousness has all your hopes, your fears, your desires, your memories, your goals in life. We can download, presumably, your consciousness, your memories into a computer. And you could

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