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

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The Evolution of Consciousness

There are no systems that are persistently in a state of only being approximately vaguely conscious. This movement inside of a conscious state or outside of aconscious state is a qualitative difference. So if you fall unconscious because maybe you faint, you don't know what it's like to offend it. You have no memory trace of that state and there's probably nothing that your mind went to in the meantime. I was conscious about something else and just did not bring the memory along. But I think that consciousness is a qualitative property that is not like fatness. And also be that your issue with the communication about the heart problem is that you have a non standard definition of consciousness. That is meaning something

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