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BI 111 Kevin Mitchell and Erik Hoel: Agency, Emergence, Consciousness
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Is Your Stream of Consciousness a Reflex Arc?
I find it incredibly telling that the clearest example you have is basically a reflex arc. I wouldn't be willing to say that your conscious your stream of consciousness had no kind of significant causal impact on what you did. And if even in that case, i feel like one can kind of possibly defend it, then i think that when we get to more complex cases, it becomes more and more obvious. So tonight, can i push eric just on the a? Well, i want to row back in time, as it were, evolutionarily. If we imagine just an ameba, say, and it's getting some signals from the outside about where, say, some bacteria r
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