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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Consciousness a Consequence of the Social Impulse?
I don't subscribe to consciousness as an emergent property of biology or neural networks. I think of the nature of first person and third person as ontologically orthogonal to each other, not reducible to each other. So it's increased complexity within the domain of first person corresponding to increased complexity. And the correspondence should not automatically be seen as causal. Do I think that the human biology types of human consciousness and types of social interaction all co-emerged? Yes.
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