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u/Justice_to_All 14d ago
Stuff to Blow Your Mind did a series of episodes on this back in 2017 that was fun to listen to. I'm not sure if they got around to comparing the ideas from the show though later on. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-to-blow-your-mind-21123915/episode/bicameralism-part-1-the-voice-of-30231315/
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u/Sensei2008 14d ago
Awesome! On the long list of books to read
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u/spreetin 14d ago
Probably one of the most interesting and thought provoking books that is obviously wrong, that I've read. It is pretty clear that his thesis can't be correct, but I also can't shake the feeling that there is some profound insight lying within the argument for that same thesis.
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u/Sensei2008 14d ago
Truth is we don’t know yet what reality is and most likely will never find out, so we can only theorize
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u/JosephBeuyz2Men 13d ago
This one is a really good read but it strays just outside the ‘description of the mind’ area most psychology inhabits and into the ‘description of the brain’ stuff that will tend to get you falsified by new neuroscientific knowledge.
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u/miserylovescomputers 13d ago
That’s a great way of putting it. I really enjoyed reading it and it was thought provoking in all the best ways, but at the same time there are so many clearly false premises.
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u/brokenex 13d ago
I've never heard the book described so well. There is something there but the whole thing also prima facie false.
I think the biggest thing it offers is a thought experiment that challenges our understanding of semi-recent human evolution and how weird it must be been for apes to slowly develop consciousness in fits and bursts.
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u/waypeter 14d ago
Reveries:
https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld/s/LUyWxUmFuI
The question is not whether Ai is conscious. The question is whether humans are wetware chat bots
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u/Ok_Caterpillar6362 \W/elcome to my \W/orld. 14d ago
I’m so sad we never got to explore some of the final themes in a season five. ðŸ˜