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AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Politics: A Deep Dive with Nightmare Masterclass's Dave

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The Structure of Conscious Thought

Lacan: I don't think the unconscious is structured like a language. The thing is that that just assumes that the expression of conscious thought as we experience it is the same as conscious thought, which sounds like a weird objection. It's not one when you think about it very deeply because you're like, oh yeah, what we are calling consciousness is not just the recursion of language. It's just the only way we can express it even to ourselves, except when we sometimes think in images.

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