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25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Importance of Consciousness

What it's like to be a bat is conscious, but most people would say on the other hand there's nothing it'slike to be a glass of water. So this what it's like way of speaking is a good way at least of serving as an initial intuition pump for what is the basic difference we're getting at between systems which are conscious and systems which are not. And the other word that is sometimes in both in this context is qualia. The experiences that we have like is one thing that is it is to see the color red and a separate thing if I get it right to have the experience of the redness of red.

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