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David J. Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science & co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU. His most recent book is Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy.
Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.
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