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Robert Wright on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Why Buddhism is True

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The Evolution of Consciousness

I want to raise a question which I didn't find in the book which I which I miss about consciousness Consciousness is Really what gives us? Suffering we could have been An animal all the other animals they have they have primal drives. They don't right They're really bad at it. We're not good at it But we're better than they are in some dimension. It seems to me the consciousness itself is a big source of our of our challenge And I don't think we have a very good evolutionary understanding of consciousness.

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