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004 - The Self

You Are Not So Smart

How Do You Feel When You Undergo Anesthesia?

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The brain can generally recreate the characterization of the self. As we get older, you see the progressive loss of that characterization in dementia. People become a different person as parts of their brain start to break down. So again, I keep coming back to this imperative that it must be an emergent property of the meat machine, which is the brain.

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