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Why did consciousness evolve?

A spark of consciousness

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Is AI already conscious?

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Why we should think of intelligence in terms of goals, not brains

What is intelligence? For the US biologist Michael Levin, who leads the Levin Lab at Tufts University, when we think of intelligence only in terms of what brains in bodies can do, we’re projecting our own biases onto the world. Instead, he argues, intelligence is the capacity to pursue goals, and it exists on a continuum that ranges from cells to humans.........

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