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Max Tegmark left his native Sweden in 1990 after receiving his B.Sc. in Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (he’d earned a B.A. in Economics the previous year at[…]
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Dr. Max Tegmark believes that consciousness is both irrelevant and incredibly important.

If you are being chased by a heat-seeking missile, it is not relevant whether the missile is having a subjective experience of consciousness. We only care about what the missile does, not how it feels.

On the other hand, consciousness is incredibly important because it is where we find purpose and meaning. We should not allow the Universe to give meaning to us; we should give meaning to the Universe.


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