Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #326
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The Bright Line: Sam Harris speaks about the ongoing war in Gaza
Last week, I put everything on hold to help craft the script for Sam’s recent podcast on Making Sense. I hope everyone will listen with an open mind.
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Nautilus Article: Is Consciousness Everywhere?
The great mystery of consciousness is why matter lights up with felt experience. After all, we are composed of particles indistinguishable from those swirling around in the sun; the atoms that compose your body were once the ingredients of countless stars in our universe’s past. They traveled for billions of years to land here—in this particular configuration that is you—and are now reading these words…
Click here to continue reading my article in Nautilus Magazine, “Is Consciousness Everywhere?”
The Future of Panpsychism
My commentary on Philip Goff’s Galileo’s Error for the Journal of Consciousness Studies, along with papers by Carlo Rovelli, Sean Carroll, Anil Seth, Galen Strawson, and others will be published in a special issue of JoCS in October 2021. In the meantime, my piece is available now on my website.
Experiencing the Universe Unfold
I attempted another bite-sized post, this time on the twin illusions of self / conscious will:
Decision-making is a process in nature. And a beautiful one at that, in which the ever-changing dance of electrical firing in the brain is in constant dialog with the outside world and other beings…