"The Enigma of Consciousness": "There's nothing in physics, on chemistry, in the biology that would tell us that certain systems, be they physical or chemical or, biological, have this interior aspect. So that's the brute fact of the brute fact that we're all confronted with that demands an explanation."

"Rethinking Consciousness: The cons conscience is central, and it's the only thing that truly exists for itself."

Merging Minds: "So when I build this artificially, then it may well happen that at a particular point, once I add more and more wires between your brain and my brain, that Brian disappears, Christophe disappears, and instead, there will be this new amalgamation of Brian Christophe that has one consciousness, but speaks with two mouths and has four legs and four arms, etcetera."

AI in Academia: "You get a graduate level, PhD level paper that goes to a high impact journal for $15 by an LLM."

Digital Immortality and Consciousness: "Then this thing might well in the limit be able to behave like me and possibly even speak like me... It won't feel like anything. Now it can fool other people because it looks like me."

"How Our Experiences Shape Perception": "With the same even reasonable people that otherwise perfectly reasonable, your friends or relatives or neighbors, suddenly, when you come to a political event, they see it totally different. Well, why? Well, because their experience leads them to have a different construct."

Defining a System Through IIT: "A whole is the it's a part of the substrate that maximizes its intrinsic coral power."

Understanding Consciousness: "And so there's a big prediction that if you truly care about patients that are conscious, that not patients that are intelligent, but patient that are conscious, what really counts is the back part of cortex."

"Unraveling Machine Consciousness": "But ultimately so this entire debate right now that's going on about machine consciousness really doesn't tell us a lot because that's always based on our intuition. And our intuition is we grew up in a world where primarily talking apes, speaking apes, surrounded by other speaking apes. So all of our intuition is based on language. But as I said before, that that leads to deep fake to machines that pretend to be conscious but don't feel like anything, but are very good at aping us."

"Are Dolphins More Conscious Than Humans?": "And it may well be that some of these creatures or also elephants may experience the world in more conscious ways yet are not as intelligent as we are because intelligence and conscience is not one and the same."