Neil deGrasse Tyson

Well, in Star Wars Episode VII, it controlled the energy of a star.

So that would be, I guess, level two.

Awesome.

By the way, in Star Trek, the Borg...

were, that's a super intelligence that was cosmic in its influence.

And so that would be even higher here.

Just to put that in context.

That's cool.

So, Nick, I presume that means that somehow consciousness is a shared entity that we all participate in as one organism?

I mean, there are different sort of definitions, but it's broadly the view that everything is conscious.

Oh, wow.

And so how do you put consciousness in?

Is that a natural outflow of a sufficiently complex computer simulation of the brain?

He's a good friend of StarTalk's.

Mathematically constructed entities.

Yeah, there's good overlap there.

So here's what I wonder, Nick.

I just have a not deeply thought out hypothesis that having thoughts such as we do

that are incomplete and that we wonder and we don't have good memory of things or we make stuff up, the fact that it's not perfect, we interpret as consciousness.

Because if it were perfect, it's just data and our brain is a storage disk that occasionally puts information together with a new result.