119 - Mark Solms: Neuropsychoanalysis and the Source of Consciousness
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The Causal Mechanism of Homeostasis
In 2013, Fristen Wood wrote an article called Life as We Know It. He reduced homeostasis to mechanistic causal laws just like anything else in nature. And so he made a set of equations showing how this is our Omustasis works. That's why it's a model of intentionality actually. Why we, why we do what we do. So that was, you can imagine my excitement because I had reached the conclusion that consciousness is at bottom raw feeling and that feeling is at bottom, an extended form of homeostasis. You know, if you're moving out of your viable bounds, you're going to get back into your viable bounds. The Hidden Spring came
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