Andy Clark - Can Consciousness be Non-Biological?

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If consciousness is 100% physical, we would have to conclude that the same kind of consciousness that we experience as humans can be generated by non-biological entities (eventually). Conversely, if non-biological consciousness would somehow, someday, prove impossible, then consciousness would have to embed some nonphysical aspect. But how would we ever know?

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Andy Clark is a British philosopher who is Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex.

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