In an excerpt from his new book, Numenta and Palm cofounder Jeff Hawkins says that consciousness isn’t beyond understanding. Nor is replicating it unimaginable. I recently attended a panel discussion titled Being Human in the Age of Intelligent Machines. At one point during the evening, a philosophy professor from Yale said that if a machine ever became conscious, then we would probably be morally obligated to not turn it off.

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