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#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Consciousness and Suffering
The purpose of consciousness is to deal with contradictions, with things that cannot be resolved. So suffering attracts the activity of our consciousness. We get some consciousness above our pay grade if we have some suffering early in our life. Most of the interesting people had trauma early on in their childhood. And trauma means that you are suffering an injury for which the system is not prepared and can't insulate itself from.
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