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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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General AI and Consciousness

A lot of people seem to assume this is really coming at your zombie doubts from the other side. Consciousness just by definition will have to come along for the right because it would be impossible to make something as functionally intelligent as a human being that wouldn't also be conscious. I think it comes down to this pre-theoretical association of intelligence with consciousness, which in turn traces to I think this pernicious anthropocentrismthat we're intelligent and we're conscious.

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