Brian Greene — This Tiny Slice of Eternity
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Question of Consciousness
i feel that if we were a spock like species, a if we came from the planet vulcan, and we only did those things that made lal purely rational, i feel that we would not have prevailed. It is only by virtue of our capacity to allow our minds to freely roam the landscape of imaginative possibility that we are able to innovate in the ways that we have collectively. And so imagination, emotion, the inward journey to understand who are, that's not some esoteric quality of human experience. That is how we came to be the species that we are. You know, my personal journey began as one that was deeply trying to illuminate things that we don't see," he says
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