What Rob Snyder thinks about consciousness
Author of The Power of Pull and writer of the newsletter The Physics of Startups; has advised more than 50 startups on growing from zero to $1 million in revenue.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Rob Snyder has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsMinds are different from machines. A machine does not choose whether or not to act; it does not have volition or will. There is an inside to a mind, which means we can’t analyze the mind like an engineer looking outside-in, the way we analyze mindless machines. We can only understand the mind by experiencing what it’s like inside our own minds.