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What sets human consciousness apart from AI?

The Guardian's Science Weekly by The Guardian

Mar 24, 202600:21:29Religion & Spirituality

Why is it like something to be ourselves and how do physical processes create our subjective experience? These questions get to the heart of the knotty problem of consciousness, and they provided the spark for the latest...

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What sets human consciousness apart from AI? is an episode from The Guardian's Science Weekly by The Guardian. Why is it like something to be ourselves and how do physical processes create our subjective experience? These questions get to t...

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Why is it like something to be ourselves and how do physical processes create our subjective experience? These questions get to the heart of the knotty problem of consciousness, and they provided the spark for the latest book from award-winning author and journalist Michael Pollan. In A World Appears, Pollan goes in search of answers about what we do and don’t know about consciousness, and why it has proven such an elusive phenomenon. He tells Ian Sample how thoughts and feelings shape our conscious experience, whether we can learn anything about human consciousness from AI, and why he thinks our minds need to be defended in today’s technology saturated world. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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