We finally wrap up our Contact conversation and then transition to Consciousness, fueled by the 2023 Holberg Debate "Does Consciousness Extend Beyond Brains?"
References:
Holberg Debate: https://holbergprize.org/en/en/holberg-prize/holberg-debate
Watch 2023 Holberg Debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofSUaZOW9h8&t=168s
Epic Spaceman video on the scale of the Milky Way Galaxy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsRmyY3Db1Y
Poetry:
- “It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.” - Ken der Heer (President’s science advisor in Contact, Carl Sagan)
- "The beauty of science is the ability to be productively wrong so that our collective understanding always ratchets upwards" - Anil Seth
- “The brain is wider than the sky, for put them side by side, the one the other will contain with ease and you besides” - Emily Dickinson
- “We’re all hallucinating all the time including right now, it’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality” - Anil Seth
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