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#657: Professor John Vervaeke — How to Build a Life of Wisdom, Flow, and Contemplation

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What is consciousness and its relationship with attention and intelligence

Consciousness is about re-realizing what's relevant and important so that you can deal with the added challenge of zeroing in on relevant information. That's why it overlaps with working memory and things like that. Now that does sound like a consciousness that would extend to animals other than humans. Totally. It helped to explain our intuition about this. Generally when people are willing to extend the attribution of consciousness, they actually do it in a way without realizing that tracks how much fluid intelligence do they have?

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