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#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens

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Is There a Difference Between Self Awareness and Consciousness?

i'm much more comfortable with the idea of studying self-awareness as opposed to consciousness because that sort of gets rid of the mystical aura of the thing. i think understanding those and gradually building up a kind of profound ability to conceptualize different levels of self- awareness will illuminate the questions about consciousness in a way that you know scratching your chin and talking about qualia is never going to do well.

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