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#551 - Patrick House - How Much Do We Actually Know About Consciousness?

Modern Wisdom

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Is There a Gradient Decadence?

The idea of gradient descent is that for any given resource, there'll be more of it somewhere. And you can actually get extraordinarily complex behavior from just following that one simple rule. For example, we've all had the experience of like a fly that we swatted away and then it immediately circles back and comes right back to where we are over and over. Like really it feels personal, right? It feels like it's about you and it's never ending.

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