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Is There Really a Hard Problem of Consciousness? - Dr. Joscha Bach, Artificial Intelligence Researcher

The DemystifySci Podcast

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The Nature of the Universe

I think we can explain how humans produce feelings by coming up with an explanation that would produce a causal agent that is reporting feelings. The fact that bacteria do not report feelings is a possible indication that they don't have any effect on the way people feel. And I also think that it's interesting that if we can't explain how humans are able to produce feelings, then we can't rule out the fact that bacteria produce feelings as well. It's just really healthy to leave it in the hypothetical realm. You said something earlier where you just were like, well, it's possible or something like that. And I think that's often the best place we can get with our theoretical understanding of nature

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