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*Would your conscious experience remain the same if part of your brain were replaced by a machine?*
Arnold Zuboff argues that if an artificial device preserved the same functional relationships as a biological brain region, then the resulting conscious experience — including qualia — would have to remain unchanged.
1:07 The Argument for Functionalism
1:42 Replacing the Visual Cortex
3:54 Why Functional Equivalence Preserves Experience
7:04 Can Functionalism Explain Qualia?
8:30 Replacing More and More of the Brain
*Arnold Zuboff* is an American philosopher known for his work on personal identity, consciousness, and probability. He took his PhD at Princeton in 2009 under Thomas Nagel and spent most of his academic career at University College London.
Arnold Zuboff's _Finding Myself: Beyond the False Boundaries of Personal Identity:_ pdcnet.org/pdc/BVDB.nsf/item?openform&product=publications&item=zuboff
*More from Arnold Zuboff on Closer To Truth:*
* Closer To Truth: The Podcast: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJr3pJl27pLLkP0kHQKL9nZh35UkgkR_
* Understanding Consciousness - Closer To Truth - Core Topic: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJr3pJl27pJKWEUWv9X56y_ut3xwFDv1
* Zuboff’s Universalism: loc.closertotruth.com/theory/zuboff-s-universalism
* Closer To Truth contributors: closertotruth.com/contributor/arnold-zuboff
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*Would your conscious experience remain the same if part of your brain were replaced by a machine?*
Arnold Zuboff argues that if an artificial device preserved the same functional relationships as a biological brain region, then the resulting conscious experience — including qualia — would have to remain unchanged.
1:07 The Argument for Functionalism
1:42 Replacing the Visual Cortex
3:54 Why Functional Equivalence Preserves Experience
7:04 Can Functionalism Explain Qualia?
8:30 Replacing More and More of the Brain
*Arnold Zuboff* is an American philosopher known for his work on personal identity, consciousness, and probability. He took his PhD at Princeton in 2009 under Thomas Nagel and spent most of his academic career at University College London.
Arnold Zuboff's _Finding Myself: Beyond the False Boundaries of Personal Identity:_ pdcnet.org/pdc/BVDB.nsf/item?openform&product=publications&item=zuboff
*More from Arnold Zuboff on Closer To Truth:*
* Closer To Truth: The Podcast: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJr3pJl27pLLkP0kHQKL9nZh35UkgkR_
* Understanding Consciousness - Closer To Truth - Core Topic: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJr3pJl27pJKWEUWv9X56y_ut3xwFDv1
* Zuboff’s Universalism: loc.closertotruth.com/theory/zuboff-s-universalism
* Closer To Truth contributors: closertotruth.com/contributor/arnold-zuboff
*Subscribe to Closer To Truth:* youtube.com/@CloserToTruthTV
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Closer To Truth, created and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, presents the world's greatest thinkers exploring humanity's deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence and sentience. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.
#CloserToTruth #Consciousness #ArnoldZuboff #Functionalism #PhilosophyOfMind
