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Sara Walker | Unraveling Life's Beginnings with the Cosmic Perspective

The Foresight Institute Podcast

CHAPTER

The Hard Question of Consciousness

Would you be okay with like humanity being replaced by an AI life that doesn't have maybe the same values that we do? I'm pretty sure I'm conscious so I share the biases of most conscious things at least I think I'm conscious of what I'm saying to you guys right now. So I guess I kind of hope there's an inner world but I also think this goes some of the framing of consciousness is always focused on this inner subjectivity and not so much like what consciousness does. If you have a lot of lights on in a lot of physical systems then that actually has more future generative potential than not.

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