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I don't think there's a problem reconciling the brain with the mind, if by 'mind' one means problem-solving ability. The problem is in reconciling the brain with consciousness. There is, as far as I know, no theory that explains how consciousness can arise from matter.

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There is: the attention schema theory, and I find it quite compelling.

I've come to think that the great consciousness mystery is a psychological one: why are human beings so obsessed with the consciousness mystery? Why do we need so much to believe that we are special?

Should this super AI come to be, I expect it to give the problem of consciousness the same amount of thought we usually give to other people's bowel movements.

I don't know that they're really different. It's just a first-person frame of reference.

When something else is conscious, or something else has a mind, that's the same thing.

"Just" — but why should there be any "perspective" at all?

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