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There is also another perspective: by creating the concept of "hard problem" of consciousness and that of "p-zombies", Chalmers led a whole generation of philosophers on a dead end. It leads to no insights even after decades of development, it's too impractical and divorced from science.

I think we should try to create intelligent AI agents in order to understand what consciousness is, and reconsider behaviourism and scientific approaches, as opposed to this kind of sterile dualism.



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