229. Fritjof Capra on Patterns of Connection: Is there a Tao of physics? Is life a web? Is humanity at a turning point?
The Michael Shermer Show
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What Is Consciousness?
Cognitive scientists distinguish between two types of consciousness. One is called primary consciousness, which has moments of self awareness that come and go. And then when this becomes an extended and continuous experience, we talk about what i call re active consciousness because in it involves thought and reflection. That occurs in the great apes and and human seeming like the red dot test.
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