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#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Your Consciousness in Charge?
The illusion that you are an agent is a construct. What part of that is actually under your control? Our consciousness is largely a control model for our own attention. The whole system that runs us is this big, cybernetic motivational system. So we're basically like a little monkey sitting on top of an elephant. But I think that our consciousness cannot create the motive force.
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