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Outline of Question & Answer
0:00 Stream starting
4:50 Stephen begins the Q&A
5:10 Who are your favourite Science fiction authors? What are your favourite stories/movies?
13:50 Why do people have emotions and feelings? How do emotions and feelings work? Happiness, anger, etc...
25:55 In the space of all possible mental states, what is the ratio of positive vs negative states? Is this a relative quantity? Does it obey certain transformations?
29:15 ​If people didn't have emotions then nothing would ever get done.
30:27 Do you think the set of emotions is finite? Is it possible evolution to bring a new kind of emotion in that set? Can we artificially create a new emotion?
35:25 Given our brains are most likely the source of our thoughts/emotions/etc. If there is a finite set of combinations of matter in the brain, could there then be a set of all possible thoughts?
54:05 What about the movie The Matrix?
1:00:55 What are your comments on the recent superconductor breakthrough? Is it a breakthrough?
1:05:02 If the resistance goes to zero, would the electron start accelerating without bound?
1:13:30 Why doesn't every single thought episode last forever? why does thought disappear after it arise?
1:17:40 How do you get your staff to get so much done, especially so much hard stuff??

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