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Christof Koch: Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #2
“his most interesting novel is called the victorious where human civilization they have this mission to this planet and everything is destroyed”— guest
The guest here is Christof Koch: Neuroscientist and president/chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, former Caltech professor, and a seminal figure in the scientific study of consciousness. Neuroscientist Christof Koch explains why intelligence and consciousness are different, why machines may never feel, and what integrated information theory implies.
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