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Additionally, I feel it's uncontroversial (from a materialist perspective) to claim that human consciousness can be built. Humans do it constantly through reproduction.

Yours is a very reasonable question. First of all, merging consciousness is admittedly a bit woo-woo; however, I feel it's worth considering. According to the literature, when the …

Agreed. "I think therefore I am" is still foundational, last I heard.

Precisely. There seems to be much debate about consciousness and what it is, but much of it is often unhelpful.

In my experience, when reading about consciousness there are a couple types of claims you should be cautious of: 1) Claims that the causes of consciousness can be easily explained.…