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#551 - Patrick House - How Much Do We Actually Know About Consciousness?
Modern Wisdom
The Theory of Consciousness Is Growing Exponentially With Every Second
There's no phenomenological experience that your brain can create, which is invalid correct in service of the ultimately correct theory of consciousness. So basically, the best we have for subjective experience is language. Language is a highly, highly compressed kind of side show almost, not even anecdotal. Like imagine a jpeg or like a perfect image, a raw photon count. And over time, you compress it and compress it to put it on the internet and a phone and back and forth. Until you end up with something, at some point, if you compress too far, you ended up with something indecipherable, right?
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