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Hubert L. Dreyfus - Is Consciousness Entirely Physical?

2022-05-18 Education
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Here's the big question about consciousness, our inner experience of what things feel like. Is consciousness a product of the physical world alone? Because if consciousness is the output of the physical brain by itself, however complex, then consciousness as physicalism would defeat those who believe, or hope for, the existence of nonphysical realities. Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Watch more interviews on consciousness: https://bit.ly/2RsUqem Hubert Lederer Dreyfus is an American philosopher. He is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley researching phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of psychology and literature. Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: http://bit.ly/2GXmFsP Closer to Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

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@francesco5581 2022-05-18

Federico Faggin, one of the fathers of computer processors. tried for years to produce an AI that was somewhat conscious and now he agree : AI and consciousness have nothing in common.

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@jeffreymartin8448 2022-05-18

"Nobody has any idea and they should keep quiet until they do" Dr. Dreyfus just added another fan to his fan club, yours truly !

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@realcygnus 2022-05-18

He is on point ! There is NO reason to think that personal inner experience ought to accompany computation however complex.

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@sharmitoboylos7585 2022-06-04

I love these conversations because all these folks on Robert’s show, including Robert himself, are some of the finest thinkers alive today, some of whom I’ve never heard of cuz I’m not too bright myself; and they all make clearer in these conversations some of the most interesting developments and ideas in the world today. Right now! Very cool. So, thank you all.

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@MontCarlo-t7m 2022-05-18

What? There actually someone studying real philosophy in U.S.? Blew my mind 🤯

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@cryptowhale1615 2022-05-18

consciousness is not a computation . ~ from Emperor 's New Mind ~ by Roger Penrose

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@N1otAn1otherN1ame 2022-05-18

So true what he says. It's like turning the ISO value of a camera to 1.0E+09. You may take a picture in near dark conditions, but you only enhance horrible lighting conditions and end up with a horrible picture.

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@stephenhanson3309 2022-05-18

although all of your guests are interesting and extremely intelligent, Dr. Dreyfus is on a different level, alongside Dr. Chomsky

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@MeredithAndrews-i2f 2025-11-25

How did he get so so brilliant

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@JohnPHulme 2022-06-04

What an enigma time for a dream.

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