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198. Bernardo Kastrup on the Nature of Reality: Materialism, Idealism, or Skepticism

The Michael Shermer Show

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Does the Computer Know That It Wants to Play Jeopardy?

Watson the computer played against the two greatest champions of all time, including ken jennings. It doesn't even know it's playing a game or that it's on television. No amount of data processing is necessarily accompanied by experience unless you already presuppose some of panpsychism. But our readiness to believe we can create private conscious in their life in silicon reflects an amazing capacity to ignore our sense of plausibility when it comes to consciousness.

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