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Is the Company Name Connected to Consciousness?
In many ways, the company name is connected to this idea of consciousness. What does vicarious mean? It's about modeling the world and internalizing the external actions. And now after having learned a lot about the world, you can run those things in your mind without actually having to act in the world. You can experience another person's thoughts by having a model of how that person works and putting yourself in some other person's shoes. Now, it's the same modeling apparatus that you're using to model the external world or some other person’s thoughts. You can turn it to yourself. That is what gives rise to consciousness, I think. Well, that's more like self