Is There a Veritical Perception?

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In the simplest mind, the very first mind was learning about its environment. We evolve just to get our genes the next generation. To adapt a chaos requires more entities that are interacting with reality in a slightly different way. That's how you build greater intelligence and greater autonomy. You fancy how it'sa use you familiar withth the kind of scientist donald hoffman is challenge to veritical perception. But i'm not a fan of saying that we don't have vertical reality.

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.