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I’m Thinking Too Much
Ronnie and I have a home to sell, boxes to pack, two cars to drive from Los Angeles to Atlanta, temporary housing to find—and, somewhere in there, I’m starting a new job.
Naturally, my brain has decided this is the perfect time to contemplate consciousness.
As ChatGPT helps organize the move, I start wondering whether AI could ever become conscious, whether consciousness requires self-awareness, and how we can be certain that anyone—or anything—has an inner experience at all.
Plus: biological prediction machines, anesthesia, the problem of other minds, cosmic video games, and a cautious…
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