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Mindscape 339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology
Sean Carroll·Jan 5, 2026
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Consciousness may require specific underlying biological mechanisms rather than just any computational process.
“what I think is if you want the machine to be conscious uh you may need a certain kind of implementation of those uh computations.”
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