
The Atheist Experience 27.267 07-09-2023 with Secular Rarity and Forrest Valkai
The Atheist Experience
The Importance of Consciousness
Timothy Stanley: consciousness is an emerging phenomenon of all the particles in your brain being in a certain position according to the laws of physics. He says if we wait long enough, eventually there seemingly would be this recombination of atoms so as to give my brain the same structure that it has right now. Stanley: If I repeat this one system enough times, it will distribute normally with any random formation and again and again. It just takes a long time to do it. And you're right mathematically and statistically that vibes make sense. The problem is, Tim, when you talk about Consciousness... You keep using the word 'conscious' but what really happens? We'll come back
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