# If You Can Have Nonorganic Consciousness by Max Tegmark > "And I think if you can have nonorganic consciousness, artificial consciousness, which would be my guess, although we don't know it, I think it's quite clear then that the mind space of possible artificial consciousness is vastly larger than anything that evolution has given us, so we have to have a very open mind." > **— Max Tegmark**, *Future of Life Institute consciousness discussion* ## Sources and Context - **Exact original source passage:** "And I think if you can have nonorganic consciousness, artificial consciousness, which would be my guess, although we don't know it, I think it's quite clear then that the mind space of possible artificial consciousness is vastly larger than anything that evolution has given us, so we have to have a very open mind." - **Editorial repair and evidence:** Restores the conditional consequence and although we don't know it uncertainty from Tegmark's transcript; no synthetic then is inserted. [Direct source](https://futureoflife.org/podcast/on-consciousness-morality-effective-altruism-myth-with-yuval-noah-harari-max-tegmark/). No timecode is asserted. - **Full quotation and context:** [FLI Podcast: On Consciousness, Morality, Effective Altruism & Myth with Yuval Noah Harari & Max Tegmark - Future of Life Institute](https://futureoflife.org/podcast/on-consciousness-morality-effective-altruism-myth-with-yuval-noah-harari-max-tegmark/) — contains the quoted wording and identifies its publication, interview, testimony, or event context. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] - **Article:** [[articles/Escape Hatch in the Skull|Escape Hatch in the Skull]] - **Article:** [[articles/Science of Digital Consciousness|Science of Digital Consciousness]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Third Possibility|The Third Possibility]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Consciousness|Consciousness]] - [[wiki/Consciousness Indicators|Consciousness Indicators]] - [[wiki/Machine Consciousness|Machine Consciousness]] - [[wiki/Hard Problem of Consciousness|Hard Problem of Consciousness]] - [[wiki/Digital Minds|Digital Minds]] - [[wiki/Mapping the Field of Artificial Consciousness|Mapping the Field of Artificial Consciousness]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "And I think if you can have nonorganic consciousness, artificial consciousness, which would be my guess, although we don't know it, I think it's quite clear then that the mind space of possible artificial consciousness is vastly larger than anything that evolution has given us, so we have to have a very open mind." — Max Tegmark, Future of Life Institute consciousness discussion https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-max-tegmark-nonorganic-consciousness ```