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Why Current AI Cannot Be Conscious | Dr. Christof Koch

aired Sep 30, 2026 · 61.0m
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Summary

I experimented with psychedelics when I was young. It's just your brain.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of know, it's, like, including: And it very much informed my view of the world, or view of reality, or view of civilizations, structures, and all of that.

Key takeaways
  1. 01I still employed at the Allen Institute And I also run a foundation called the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation based in Santa Monica to study perception what we call the perception box an
  2. 02And now there are even weirder things called quantum contextuality that people are testing
  3. 03that will be immensely practical importance to the term consciousness, to measure it, to maybe quantify it in normal people, in people with various diseases, disorders, psychotic d
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