Ep17 "What is consciousness?"
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
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The Evolution of Consciousness
"How do you get some magical high level property from simple low level parts? Now that sounds impossible, but the first thing to understand is the concept of any emergent property," he says. To understand consciousness, we may need to think not in terms of the pieces and parts of the brain, but instead in terms of how they all interact with each other,. " Consciousness seems to have evolved because it is useful."
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