i like the analogy of heat fire the lan vital is particularly fascinating because we now, biologists were so obsessed with this, we're going to find this. And then what happened to that? It just kind of went away. People just quit talking about it. Once we understood that biochemistry and and the molecular a physiology of organs and and the whole process of living organisms, people just quit looking for it,. Something like that. There's not some magical ingredient that's causing life. The same with conscious it's lots of things happening in a brain, all at the same time, all over the place, that gives rise to it. Not one magical there's not like a substance. But
Why do you exist? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence? What does it truly mean to have a mind―to think? Science has offered few answers to these existential questions until now.
Michael Shermer speaks with computational neuroscientist, Ogi Ogas, about his unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, self-awareness, and civilization arose incrementally out of chaos, and how leading cities and nation-states are developing “superminds,” and perhaps planting the seeds for even higher forms of consciousness.