You may ask "Which Universe Am I In?"

[westwall]

That is maybe one your most weirdest comments.

Yet factual.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Okay. You too, thank you for playing.

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Is there any point in talking with you I wonder. What would you like me to have said? what could I have said that would have been interesting to you in relation to your post?

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

What Creates Consciousness?

AI and consciousness. (First 5 1/2 minutes. Wow!)

Renowned researchers David Chalmers and Anil Seth join Brian Greene to explore how far science and philosophy have gone toward explaining the greatest of all mysteries, consciousness--and whether artificially intelligent systems may one day possess it.This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

Participants:
David Chalmers, Anil Seth

Moderator:
Brian Greene


Problems of Consciousness The Hard and the Real

Interesting but I've heard much of this before, good stuff but not really anything amazing. The assumption that consciousness is an emergent property of a physical system is one that I am always mindful of. As Greene (briefly) mentioned there is the view that "mind" somehow precedes "gives rise to" matter.

If that's true then scientific analysis of the matter will never reveal "how" or "why" consciousness exists. It's a bit like asking why do particles exist, what causes them to be.