Is There a God?

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The way you talk about it still has a sense of inevitability to it. We we know that if the same physical activity that has existed for the past three billion years in the journey of the mind, and there's no reason to think it won't. Then there'll be minds that jump through stages. But the character of those minds, the personality of those minds is hard to predict. Our super mindcovers multiple time zones. It's locked into g p s based on relativity. Even though we individually can't think about relativistic time, our america, the united states, conceives of timas relativistic. There's no certainty about what kind of country the

Why do you exist? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence? What does it truly mean to have a mind―to think? Science has offered few answers to these existential questions until now.

Michael Shermer speaks with computational neuroscientist, Ogi Ogas, about his unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, self-awareness, and civilization arose incrementally out of chaos, and how leading cities and nation-states are developing “superminds,” and perhaps planting the seeds for even higher forms of consciousness.