Robert Wright & Christof Koch: Quantifying consciousness

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01:39 The search for non-human consciousness
14:44 Consciousness in the organic and inorganic worlds
19:36 Measuring consciousness
28:08 Lucky us: the Universe breeds consciousness
35:56 How scientific and spiritual worldviews can enrich each other
40:03 Artificial intelligence is not (necessarily) artificial consciousness
48:31 The Allen Institute for Brain Science and its mission

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Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero) and Christof Koch (Allen Institute for Brain Science, Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist)

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