Annaka Harris

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And I understand your annoyance with it.

But for me, what's so useful about it is it gets you to ask the same questions you're asking when you're looking at robots.

If you just run the experiment and you say, okay, you know, I'm sitting here with Lex.

What if I try to trick myself?

What's different about the world?

If someone tells me, actually, he's a robot is essentially what the zombie experiment is.

He's over there.

He has no conscious experience.

He's acting.

There's no experience there.

So it gets you to ask some interesting questions.

One is.

Okay, when it seems impossible, I just think, no, that makes no sense.

I can't even imagine that.

Okay, what do I think consciousness is responsible for?

What is consciousness doing in that human over there that is Lex that I can't fathom

all of your behavior and everything that you're doing and about without consciousness.

So it gets you to ask this question.

And these are the questions I begin my book with.

What is consciousness doing?

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