Consciousness is a mathematical pattern: Max Tegmark at TEDxCambridge 2014
As a physicist, Max Tegmark sees people as "food, rearranged." That makes his answer to complicated questions like "What is consciousness?" simple: It's just math. Why? Because it's the patterns,...
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Translator: Maria K. Reviewer: Denise RQ Consciousness - we've all wondered about the mystery of consciousness. But there are really two separate mysteries, as the famous philosopher David Chalmers has emphasized. First, there is the mystery of how our brain processes information, which David calls, "the easy problems of consciousness," and even though they're actually very hard, we've made huge progress in recent years building computers that can play chess, that can process natural language, that can answer quiz show questions, that can drive cars, and so on. But then, there is a second mystery of consciousness that David calls, "the hard problem of consciousness." Why do we have subjective experience? If I'm ...
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Translator: Maria K. Reviewer: Denise RQ Consciousness - we've all wondered about the mystery of consciousness. But there are really two separate mysteries, as the famous philosopher David Chalmers has emphasized. First, there is the mystery of how our brain processes information, which David calls, "the easy problems of consciousness," and even though they're actually very hard, we've made huge progress in recent years building computers that can play chess, that can process natural language, that can answer quiz show questions, that can drive cars, and so on. But then, there is a second mystery of consciousness that David calls, "the hard problem of consciousness." Why do we have subjective experience? If I'm ...
