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Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin
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is consciousness a secondary phenomenon, but that in addition, it’s not even real”13 [emphasis in original].
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
In this twenty-first century of speed, information and high technology, we still have Stone Age brains. As powerful as culture is, it cannot cancel out or transform these deeply embedded primal forces, but only modulate it.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
We are now creating tame humans that produce enormous amounts of data and function as very efficient chips in a huge data-processing mechanism, but these data-cows hardly maximize the human potential. Indeed, we have no idea what our full human potential is, because we know so little about the human mind. And yet we don’t invest much in exploring
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most of us know that disorders of the brain can trump the best intentions of the mind.
Sam Harris • Free Will
But whatever you think, the previous paragraphs might have had some emotional effect on you. I have told a story, and this story might change your mind about certain things, and might even cause you to take certain actions in the world. Who created this story you’ve just read? I promise you that I wrote the text myself, with the help of some other
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