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#551 - Patrick House - How Much Do We Actually Know About Consciousness?
Modern Wisdom
What Is Consciousness?
A teenage girl with epilepsy had electrodes implanted in her brain. When she has a seizure, these electrodes will be able to tell the surgeon exactly where it is. She ends up laughing and they ask why; she says 'because you guys are just so funny standing around' But there's such nuance in that moment because first of all, who are we to deny her answer? We're getting highly compressed bitmap images of the world through someone's language.
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