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most of my adult life since my late

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teens when I got into University I've

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been involved in the world of science

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engineering technology which has always

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fascinated me and underlying all these

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models of science and engineering in the

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back of my mind for many years there was

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the philosophical idea that the

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metaphysics of materialism because I

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thought there was nothing better I

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thought materialism was the most

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promising Avenue to eventually find

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closure to eventually explain the world

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and our circumstances within it and I

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labored under this assumption for quite

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a while even I worked at CERN I founded

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a company that does was eventually

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acquired by Intel in the field of

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reconfigurable computing I worked on

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artificial intelligence I even a bit

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ashamed to say but at some point I was

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even a single ethereum I thought that

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the singularity was a perhaps realistic

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I hope for the future and then something

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changed I read a paper by philosopher

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David Chalmers in which he explained the

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hard problem of consciousness the idea

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that you cannot even in principle reduce

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the qualities of experience to the

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parameters of physical arrangements and

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I understood that not only conceptually

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but I cracked it I really understood it

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in my body in my bones materialism is

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not a viable because it can be argued

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that it doesn't explain anything since

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all we have are the qualities of

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experience and for me that that landed

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like a bombshell it was quite impressive

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in the beginning because it busted my

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hopes it busted my vision for the future

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it destroyed all that but it planted the

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seed of something new it forced me to to

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look into new directions to look into

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new possibilities different avenues the

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death of my old philosophical self and

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the consequent birth of my new

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philosophically elf planted the seed for

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the work I have done over the past

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several years since my early due to meet

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30s until now I'm 41 today it was a

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seminal moment a seminal moment of

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change transition a very difficult one

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even depressive one but in hindsight a