144. Antonio Damasio (neuroscientist & philosopher) – Where is My Mind?
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Is There a Consciousness?
The only way we can actually have any logical, scientific foundation of ethics is precisely in terms of experience. I don't think that the difference between a living bug and a dead bug is that the living bug has some sort of secret life sauce in it. Similarly, i think that what makes my brain conscious, but the food i ate, which got rearranged into my brain n wasn't conscious. Isn't because they're made of different kind of stuff. It's the same corks rearranged, right? It's the pattern into which they're arranged. And i think it's a scientific question, what properties does this pattern of information processing have to have for there to be a subjective
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