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David Chalmers on AI and Consciousness

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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The Panpsychist View of Reality

I am curious just what the picture of the world looks like to you if we take this idea of panpsychism to be true. How could the combination of quadrillions of quarks and photons inside a human brain add up to my consciousness? Normally you put together 10 different consciousnesses. So how does that work? An alternative is that you use a people sometimes called cosmo-psychism. That instead it's maybe one, maybe rather than particles being fundamental. It's something like the wave function of the universe is fundamental. And then you might have a single universal consciousness.

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