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#34 — The Light of the Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There a Conscious System?

"I feel supersensitized to the pros of people not following the plot here," he says. "If it's the first time someone is hearing these concerns, it's easy to lose sight of what the actual subject is." He adds that if we built a robot that could do all the things we can, it seems to me that at no point in refining its mechanism would we have reason to believe that it's now conscious,. even if it passes the touring testou see.

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