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506: Dr. Andrew Weil

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

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Consciousness Is an Epi Phenomenon

Ora: My belief is that consciousness is primary and that consciousness organizes matter into more and more elaborate forms. Ora: I've read theories of consciousness that make it seem almost like a mistake, or like siky heat coming off an engine,. The fancy word for mistake in science is epi phenomenon. Consciousness is an incidental thing that just arises out of the chemistry and electrical activity the brain. And so it has to, maybe they just have to ignore it until we get better scopes or something it up. What a shame.

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