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#551 - Patrick House - How Much Do We Actually Know About Consciousness?

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The Side Effects on Any CVS

I think we're in the Babylonian era of understanding the brain and therefore understanding consciousness. Just all you need to do is look at the side effects on any bottle in any pick up as you walk down the pharmacy. We don't know why stimulating with an electro that part of the brain creates the perception or the kind of warping of faces subjectively to a person. If you activate somewhere else in the brain, it'll create the sound of music or if you somewhere else, it will create a visual experience. There's no theory that should not be able to explain everything that's happened in your head.

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