Listen "Blindsided 11: Consciousness Is a Bug, Not a Feature"
Episode Synopsis
Join Brian and Steven as the scramblers and the vampire demon challenge the value of the very essence of of what makes us us.
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The book doesn’t have chapters in the traditional sense, but it does have natural stopping points separated by quotes.
The starting quote for this episode is: “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” —Emerson M. Pugh
This episode’s discussion ends at the quote:“You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.” —Einstein
The last quote in the book is: Species used to go extinct. Now they go on hiatus.” —Deborah MacLennan, Tables of our Reconstruction
But we’ll be reading the notes and references too.
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