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#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

I suspect the robots you currently have are not conscious I guess on any of the reasonably viable models even though there's great disagreement all of them probably would hold that your robots are not conscious. Even in even forgetting the hard problem of consciousness even the scientific question of trying to find the neural correlates of consciousness is really hard and there's absolutely no consensus. Some people think it's in the front of the brain some people think it’s in the back of the brain it's just a total mess. If we could have very sophisticated robots I mean if we go for example for the integrated information theory again there could be a robot set up to behave just like us but the information is not stored

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