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The more we learn about the brain the less room there is for consciousness to play a role.
Susan Blackmore • Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
it doesn’t seem that computers are about to gain consciousness,
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
If our minds can be recreated by a machine, then maybe our thinking is more robotic than we’d like to admit. And that’s a reality that shakes us right down to our human core.
Shai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
The disjointed evolution of these semi-independent mental systems produced a cognitive by-product, a capacity to entertain the notion that “minds” can separate from bodies.
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
The fact that it is not a real engine is irrelevant to the argument against solipsism. After all, not everything that is real has to be easy to identify.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
Darwin resolved a problem that was not a problem at all in nineteenth-century biology, because his contemporaries were convinced that they already knew the answer.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Nature of Science
a supposed designer of our biosphere will seem not only morally deficient, but intellectually unremarkable.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Gruber’s Darwin on Man is both the canonical study of Darwin’s intellectual journey toward the idea of natural selection and one of the most insightful books on scientific creativity ever written.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
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