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“There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a conscious experience. We don't even have the beginnings of a theory whose conclusion would be "such a system is conscious.”

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Stuart J. Russell
Stuart J. Russell

Stuart J. Russell is a renowned computer scientist born in 1962. His extensive research and contributions in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly in machine learning, knowledge representation, and decision theory, have had a profound impact on the development of the field. more

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