Podcast of the week - April 2016
April 23, 2016
My podcast recommendation for this week comes from Sam Harris’s discussion with David Chalmers about consciousness.
The 2nd half gets a little bit waffly when discussing the future of AI - coming from current fears that Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence started last year, but the first half covers conciousness really well.
In particular:
- What is consciousness? Is it actually anything or just a by-product of all the data our brains receive?
- Is everything in the universe conscious? If so, are thermostats conscious?
- Mmmmmm brains: the zombie analogy for consciousness.
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/the-light-of-the-mind
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