Ask A Genius 580 – Rational and Irrational, and Evaluation and Garbage
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2020/11/26
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Rick Rosner: Rational and irrational, but all rooted in economic and psychological considerations that all, whether there square or not, they can explain why we do what we do.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: And so, what’s the separation?
Rosner: Drained by biology and sentimentality and economics. But all that is gonna change in terms of consciousness. When consciousness becomes possible to replicate, preserve consciousness outside of a biological body or create consciousness, it is something that didn’t start biological.
Really, that’s all I have to say in this segment is that everything changes when consciousness itself becomes an independently existing thing. It opens up a bunch of questions. Some of these questions are being addressed and have been addressed, mostly stupidly and superficially by science fiction. But it is possible to have a reasonable discussion about what is going to happen.
It will become possible to assign value both to society, in terms of dollars to consciousness of various types, various magnitudes of consciousness. It also becomes highly likely that consciousness will be cheapened. That once it becomes commodified, then it’ll be easier to think of it in certain contexts as garbage. That’s it. That’s our segment for right now.
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