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Living at the Edge of Chaos with Neil Theise

Tricycle Talks

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The Brain Makes Mind

Neil Thees: Consciousness is not an epiphenomenon of the brain. Rather, the brain functions more like a transducer, like a radio receiving radio waves. He says that out of this pure awareness, as it becomes aware of itself, sort of shimmies into a subject object split. There's no thing viewing another thing in pure awareness; there's just the awareness.

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