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ZIZ010 Materialism and Theology (2007)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Complexity of Consciousness

consciousness is originally a consciousness of failure you become conscious when something goes wrong because the poor did it. A friend from Duke University turkish guy wonderful brain scientist told me that he was doing some of his boring experiment with apes and so on. He told me that the first train things that apes are contrary to what we would expect much more plastic adaptable than humans like if you show to an ape a beautiful female partner and the bad one but put obstacles that he cannot reach the beautiful one he will try the ape for some time then can he say f of no? But with humans we we are attached you don't drop it, I think this goes even for the history of science isn't it

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