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#75 – Eric Schwitzgebel on Digital Consciousness and the Weirdness of the World

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Exploring the Dust Theory and the Possibility of Instantiating Every Possible Mind

In this chapter, they discuss the dust theory idea from the book 'Permutation City' and the concept of running a program or function to yield experiences. They delve into the possibility of instantiating every possible mind across the cosmos and the challenge this poses to theories of computation and mentality.

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