David Deutsch: embodiment is basically irrelevant for consciousness — "I am a computer program!"
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-24
Physicist David Deutsch tells Brian Keating that embodiment is basically irrelevant for consciousness, claiming he can prove it, and declares "I am a computer program!" — arguing that mind doesn't require a physical body and that a purely computational system could in principle host consciousness. A contrarian big-picture take against the embodied-intelligence orthodoxy in current AGI debates.
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