Elon Musk: “A larger human population will have increased consciousness.”

“I mean, just like consciousness increases from a single celled creature to, you know, a 30 trillion cell creature, we're more conscious than a bacteria. It seems that way. So A larger human population will have increased consciousness. We're more likely to understand the answers to the nature of the universe if we have a lot more people than if we have fewer. Right. I don't have kids.” (1:08:17–1:08:23)

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