Could a computer simulation be conscious? I sat down with Grace Lindsay, professor of psychology and data science at NYU and computational neuroscientist, to talk about modeling the brain, free will, emergence, the hard problem of consciousness, and whether uploading your mind to a computer would actually be you.

We cover:

• The fruit fly connectome and what’s still missing

• Is the brain deterministic or probabilistic?

• Why randomness doesn’t save free will

• What the “self” actually is

• Whether a self-modeling system could be conscious

• The line between science and philosophy

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