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The Atheist Experience 27.267 07-09-2023 with Secular Rarity and Forrest Valkai

The Atheist Experience

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The Emergence of Consciousness

I wanted to know what you think is conscious, just like the product of maybe like chemical reactions between your neurons. You can have one single neuron firing and not call it consciousness. But if you have sufficient amount of them all doing something, then you come up with a state which generally is defined as awareness in any shape or form. That's where you get into the realm of conscious. And that is 100% just governed by the shape and structure and electrical activity in your brain. There's there's the famous story of Phineas Gage, who had his frontal lobe obliterated in a mining or a railroad accident. He was sexually aggressive, rude, mean, predatory, cruel,

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