If consciousness is the way that information feels when it’… - Max Tegmark

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If consciousness is the way that information feels when it’s processed in certain ways, then it must be substrate-independent; it’s only the structure of the information processing that matters, not the structure of the matter doing the information processing. In other words, consciousness is substrate-independent twice over!

Max Tegmark

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence · August 29, 2017 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Max Tegmark (born May 5, 1967) is a Swedish-American physicist, cosmologist and machine learning researcher. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute. He is also a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute and a supporter of the effective altruism movement, and has received research grants from Elon Musk to investigate existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence.

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Alternative Names: Tegmark • Max Shapiro • Max Erik Tegmark

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