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180. A Conversation so Intense It Might as Well Be Psychedelic | John Vervaeke

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Failure of Consciousness?

There is a growing consensus that the attempt to explain consciousness computationally, or even just in terms of a sort of behaviorist set of skills, has failed. The idea that cognition is computation and that the mind is a formal system is being replaced with the idea that thinking isn't in the head. It's the way the embodied brain is dynamically coupled to the world as part of an ongoing evolution of your sense remotor riht. They mean, hence, Hence the justification for freedom of speech, you might say, well, and also also the freedom of action,. And also, you know, a freedom for people to explore different ways in which they inhabit their body.

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