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Self-driving cars and chess-playing computers can perform these tasks without consciousness because their computational substrate supports algorithms that would not run on human brains.
Unresolved speaker · Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach) · 2 Nov 2026
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“And, uh, they achieve all those things without consciousness, and that's because we implement them on the substrate that allows us to do-- to construct algorithms on them that would not run on human brains, right?”1:32:39Report a misattribution
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