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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science

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Can We Move From the Brain Activity to the Experiences We Have as Humans?

As more knowledge is gained about the ways in which animals, when they behave, what patterns show up at various parts of the brain and nervous system, we'll get more of a handle on what brain activity is associated with experiences that we have as humans. Can we move from the brain activity to the experiences in terms of our person? No, you can't. That's the hypothesis once again. Maybe consciousness is just one of the laws of physics that's yet to be discovered. Maybe it permeates all matter. We would understand that the bottle water is in fact conscious, just much less conscious than us humans. And then we would be able to generate beings that are more conscious. Well

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