The Importance of Consciousness

We are misunderstanding consciousness as just mental alertness, he says. Our entire education system is just about survival, one being better than the other,. How can you be conscious when you're competitive? Your only joy is other people's failures. So, do we need to change our systems? Oh, definitely. See, right now, it is anyway going to change in the next five to ten years, not because people are going to become conscious, simply because of artificial intelligence. My phone will be able to do ten PhDs a day. This will be nothing. It won't work like that. I think this is sickness. From kindergarten, you're spreading the sickness into children and you