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EPISODE · Aug 12, 2018 · 23 MIN

Conscious Computers?

from Onchain Experiments · host Patrick Sweetman

Can computers become conscious? Consciousness is the feeling of subjective experience, of all your first-person sensations. While we don't know whether or now computers can become conscious, we explore 8 theories for whether machines can become conscious and whether we could upload our consciousness to them: 1) Weak Emergence 2) Strong Emergence 3) Physical Property of Matter 4) Quantum Phenomenon 5) Consciousness is Fundamental 6) Consciousness is Universal 7) A Trick of the Brain 8) Something Spiritual R E S O U R C E S: The Fourth Age: https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Age-Conscious-Computers-Humanity/dp/1501158562

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