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Okay, the second feature is this one that has been such a source of trouble to us, and that is, all of our conscious states have this qualitative character to them.

There's something that it feels like to drink beer which is not what it feels like to do your income tax or listen to music, and this qualitative feel automatically generates a third feature, namely, conscious states are by definition subjective in the sense that they only exist as experienced by some human or animal subject, some self that experiences them.

Maybe we'll be able to build a conscious machine.

Since we don't know how our brains do it, we're not in a position, so far, to build a conscious machine.

Another feature of consciousness is that it comes in unified conscious fields.

So I don't just have the sight of the people in front of me and the sound of my voice and the weight of my shoes against the floor, but they occur to me as part of one single great conscious field that stretches forward and backward.

The disappointment of robotics derives from the fact that we don't know how to make a conscious robot, so we don't have a machine that can do this kind of thing.

Okay, the next feature of consciousness, after this marvelous unified conscious field, is that it functions causally in our behavior.

One and the same event, my conscious decision to raise my arm has a level of description where it has all of these touchy-feely spiritual qualities.

It's only relative to conscious agents that a piece of paper is money or that a bunch of buildings is a university.

Either a conscious agent is carrying out the computation, or he's got a piece of machinery that admits of a computational interpretation.

So it's the conscious emulation of life's genius.

I can assure you I was fully conscious while I was taking those pictures.

Similarly, we have small manufacturing companies making conscious decisions to relocate to the city.

So this is interesting to us, because the conscious and subconscious decision process implies that the stuff that you do take with you and end up using has some kind of spiritual, emotional or functional value.

And I can't remember a specific day where we made a conscious decision that we were actually going to go out and build these things, but once we got that idea in our minds of the world as a dataset, of being able to capture millions of data points on a daily basis describing the global economy, of being able to unearth billions of connections between them that had never before been found, it just seemed boring to go work on anything else.

But it makes the point all the more, of why you have to be conscious of where the patient is.

And so you're very conscious in the cockpit; you're thinking about all of the things that you might have to do, all the switches and all the wickets you have to go through.

He said he was conscious of working within constraints, but not of making compromises.

So they're mapping the social scaling onto the geometric scaling; it's a conscious pattern.

So this is very conscious knowledge.

They'll be conscious of our fragile frame and move aside if we got too close, and they'll account for our unpredictability and anticipate our actions.

So all this would count as religion for Rattray, but my point is that when you look into the lives of those people, you also find that every time they do anything, they're conscious of the ancestors.

There was a 16-year-old girl, she had brain surgery, and she was conscious because the surgeons wanted to talk to her.

I've noticed more and more people taking conscious measures these days to try to open up a space inside their lives.

And it has this constant voiceover narrative in your stream of conscious thinking.

Each of us is conscious.

I can't be certain that you guys are conscious.

If we weren't conscious, nothing in our lives would have meaning or value.

Why are we conscious?

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