Transcript

Thank you.

So thank you so much for joining us this evening for this exploration of consciousness in the age of artificial intelligence. And look, in any discussion of consciousness, it is important to get one thing straight at the outset we do not know what consciousness is, and that's in light of the fact that each of us, I think, but I do not know for sure.

Each of us can attest to what the experience of consciousness is, what consciousness feels like, and some of us can further attest through meditative practice or chemically induced modifications can attest to what altered states of consciousness are like, but we are still very much in the dark regarding how it is that configurations of material particles that themselves do not seem to have any kind of inner world, they somehow, in aggregate, generate inner worlds of phenomenological experience.