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Consciousness May Dissolve Like the Life Question

Rather than a single capital-C consciousness problem with one explanatory answer, the productive path is to map specific kinds of phenomenology to specific computations and neural systems; consciousness may dissolve the way the 19th-century 'hard problem' of life and elan vital did, where the question turned out to be misframed and life proved to be complex non-obvious relationships among non-living things.

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Speaker

Alison Gopnik

Evidence Quote

i think what will be more interesting is to say what does what are these specific relationships between specific kinds of of phenomenology... and specific kinds of computations and and and neural systems

Source

153 - Possible MindsMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:27:33 AM

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