Consciousness - Physical or Non-Physical - Robert Lawrence Kuhn - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview®

Ajouté : 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]If consciousness is physical, then I'm 100% sure at some time in the future that we will have a full theory of phenomenal consciousness. If it's physical, I don't think it's very soon.

[00:00:11]And people, you know, say number of I would say be hundreds of years if not more, but we would will be able to achieve that if conscious is physical.

[00:00:19]If it's if there's anything about it that's not physical, then we in our current state will never be able to know for sure and come to consensus ever in principle. So, it's it's a very clear bimodal divide between whether conscious is physical or non-physical in terms of our capacity to absolutely understand it. If it's physical, we absolutely will at some point in the future. As will AI become conscious. If conscious is is 100% physical, then AI will become conscious at some point. Conscious is non-physical, AI becomes a separate question.