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#551 - Patrick House - How Much Do We Actually Know About Consciousness?

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The Wildest or the Most Exotic Explanation?

I suppose that we're now in an environment which is very, very, very quickly changing to the point where evolution amongst humans at the moment is going to be incredibly difficult to optimize for. You go one generation to another generation and all of the things that you optimize for within the last mutation is now no longer viable. I think the wildest bar none, if you bring choice voted across all neuroscientists is the Penrose-Hamroff work OR theory. Nobody's come up with a good explanation, right? Nobody has one. So it's kind of fun that like theories get to find, get their heyday, they get to stand up on stage and give their speech because

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