In episode 239 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined for the third time by Dr. Josh Rasmussen. This time we talk about some philosophical constraints on creating consciousness. We discuss patternist and computational theories of the mind and Josh explains why structure alone isn't sufficient for creating consciousness. Check the time stamps for the specifics.

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6:18 - the construction challenge: C.U.P.
9:54 - Artificial Intelligence and Emergent Consciousness
16:20 - Motivating Patternism/Functionalism
35:25 - Contents of Consciousness
45:53 - Eliminativism vs. Reductionism about Qualia
54:42 - Computationalism, Identity, Brain Uploading
1:08:07 - Perspectival Unity of Consciousness Challenge
1:14:20 - Subject Unity of Consciousness Challenge
1:19:11 - The Combination Problem for Neuromorphic Chips
1:25:16 - You need Things to Make a Pattern
1:27:10 - Powers of Consciousness Challenge
1:37:55 - Habituation and Dispositions to Act
1:40:20 - Brains, Books, and Non-occurent thoughts, and Angels
1:45:55 - You are not your thoughts
1:49:54 - Can the AI Folks Construct a Conscious Substance?