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198. Bernardo Kastrup on the Nature of Reality: Materialism, Idealism, or Skepticism

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The Relationship Between Brain Activity and Inner Experience

I think single celled organisms do have private, conscious, inner life. Life is what a certain dissociative process in consciousness looks like. We can get intoe details of that. But if you look at a paramesium under a microscope, it runs from from danger. It goes after food. Wen this thing doesn't have nervous system. It's basically just gelatin inside lipid membrane a. So yes, i think private, conscious inner life A e is entirely correlated with life and metabolism.

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