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What sets human consciousness apart from AI?

What sets human consciousness apart from AI?

Science Weekly vor 6 Monaten

Ian Sample speaks to author and journalist Michael Pollan about his new book A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

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Why is it like something to be ourselves and how do physical
processes create our subjective experience? These questions get to
the heart of the knotty problem of consciousness, and they provided
the spark for the latest book from award-winning author and
journalist Michael Pollan. In A World Appears, Pollan goes in
search of answers about what we do and don’t know about
consciousness, and why it has proven such an elusive phenomenon. He
tells Ian Sample how thoughts and feelings shape our conscious
experience, whether we can learn anything about human consciousness
from AI, and why he thinks our minds need to be defended in today’s
technology saturated world. Help support our independent journalism
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