Episode #179 ... Why is consciousness something worth talking about?

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  Hello everyone, I'm Steven West, this is Philosophize This.

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  The website is PhilosophizeThis.org.

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  Thanks for supporting the show on Patreon.

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  Thanks for contributing for the back catalogue of the show with 179 episodes now.

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  Pretty exciting.

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  And for 178 of those episodes,

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  this show has been talking about the history of philosophical ideas that have gotten us up to this point.

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  And it's a good thing we spent that long, I think.

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  I think to be able to understand the world you live in, it helps to understand the history that it emerged out of.

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  And for any of you that have listened to all 178 episodes we've done so far,

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  you're going to have a pretty big advantage in this next thought experiment the show is going to be running,

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  because maybe it's time on this show that we start applying all this philosophical education we've gotten to the real-life,

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  contemporary philosophical debates that are going on right now.

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  I alluded last time to some upcoming episodes on the philosophy surrounding artificial intelligence.

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  And while we'll certainly be talking, even today,

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  about artificial intelligence as part of our examples, there's a sense in which, in my opinion,

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  understanding the full context of why people are talking about AI so much these days comes down to first understanding a lot of ancillary conversations that are going on in the philosophy of mind right now.

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  Things like free will and determinism, things like the problem of identity, the problem of intentionality.

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  Not to mention one of the most mysterious questions in the history of philosophy,

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  the one we're going to be talking about today,

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