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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness

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The Lawnmower Is Conscious

Elon Musk talks about the flame of human consciousness. Can we instill consciousness into other beings? Because that's a sad thought that whatever this thing inside our minds that hopes and dreams and fears and loves can all die. I have a robot lawnmower at home. My kids call it CC call car. It's a robo mo. And it, well, the way it works, it has an electric field around the perimeter. The fact we're here and the robots we leave behind, they all have some of that. So we won't lose it all.

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Speaker 1
Drama is at the center of the meek versus Drake battle. Yes.
Speaker 2
We have that Uzi I want to rock versus dreams and nightmares conversation that just came up recently.
Speaker 3
Which is crazy. But with context, now you kind
Speaker 1
of, now it's. Now it's even crazy. Honestly, look at that. This and go right back to the envy clip you played where you said, yo, we ain't talked. But you called me about the housing sheet. Meek is saying, yo, we ain't had the best relationship. I'm not on your album. But you're calling me to do your tiny desk with
Speaker 2
you. Tiny desk is a podcast.
Speaker 3
No, it's a live performance. It's a live performance.
Speaker 4
Live performance. Live performance. Never MTV unplugged. It's kind of like that. It's like, if we
Speaker 1
ain't really fucking with each other like that, why are you calling me? Got it.
Speaker 2
He also talked about Callie, too. Me tweeted about Callie as well. I'm not going to speak on Callie.
Speaker 1
But something, let me get me. He said, if they asked me, if I was at an interview and they asked me about you and Callie, I wouldn't say nothing. And I made millions of dollars with Callie. I just am not cut like that. I wouldn't do it. Then he
Speaker 3
said, drama, you really do know real charity and Philly. He just started going the way he went. He got it all off. He started going the way. And that's the thing. That's
Speaker 1
why I, back to the Twitter thing, meet going to let you know exactly what he's thinking and what he's feeling. All the way through. He's going to get it all off. And because I know that to be true about me, Paul, I
Speaker 3
was flagriffed.

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