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Christof Koch: Can Consciousness Be Measured?

Mind-Body Solution

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The Importance of Consciousness

In principle, if you build machines in the image of man, we'll be as conscious as a human. The digital machine right now is not conscious, think about the following. I have a friend at Caltech who co-grants the field equation of Einstein's equation of general relativity to simulate the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Now I have a quantum machine implemented on my app, so it's the latest Apple model that's quantum engineering in a simulated human. If the simulation is active, my laptop will act like a human, right?

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