Is This Reality? VR, AI, and the Mystery of Consciousness - Part 2

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In part two of this partnership with the Swedish publishing house and ideas forum Fri Tanke we hear from Anders Ynnerman, Professor of Scientific Visualization at Linköping University and the Program Director of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), and Henrik Kugelberg, Interdisciplinary ethics fellow Stanford University - who react to philosopher David Chalmer's keynote speech on VR, AI, and the Mystery of Consciousness. We’d love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be. This event took place in May 2023 in Stockholm. Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to podcasts@intelligencesquared.com or Tweet us @intelligence2. And if you’d like to get ad-free access to all Intelligence Squared podcasts, including exclusive bonus content, early access to new episodes and much more, become a supporter of Intelligence Squared today for just £4.99, or the equivalent in your local currency . Just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Hello, I'm Ian Stirling, and I'm with one of McCain's farmers who grow their potatoes.
0:34.0	Hang on, these are odd-looking potatoes.
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1:00.0	Welcome to The Intelligence Glad Podcast. I'm producer Catherine Hughes.
1:04.0	In today's episode, we bring you part two of our partnership with the Swedish publishing house and ideas forum, Free Tanker.
1:11.0	Exploring the philosophical and political implications of AI, virtual reality, and the mystery of consciousness.
1:17.0	Part one of this event was released in our last episode, and it's available now for all our listeners to take a listen to that first, if you can.
1:23.0	This event took place in May 2023 in Stockholm.
1:29.0	Thank you, David.
1:31.0	Extremely interesting. Please sit down, actually, there, because now I'm going to invite two more guests up on stage to discuss.
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