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Nick Lane on Origins of Life, Consciousness, Alien Life, Krebs Cycle, and Evolution

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Is Consciousness an Emergent Property of a Complex Central Nervous System?

In the beginning of the book, i recall there was an analogy made between a city and a cell. Are we a part of a larger consciousness, or is its slow transmision speed? Yes. And so the very complex feelings that we have now are effectively, they've been through a process of natural selection. They have real meaning for us because they've really been selected. It would be great if we thought of ourselves as a part of aur larger hall. Oke, let's get back to the book. This is a great transitionclit.

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