Nicholas Humphrey on Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
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The Importance of Phenomenal Consciousness in the Cosmos
The chances of phenomenal consciousness having evolved anywhere else in the universe you call vanishingly small and that the phenomenal consciousness itself is an ultimate achievement. I think it wasn't a necessary consequence of evolution it didn't have to go even on earth but it's very unlikely to have occurred anywhere else because of the lucky breaks which is involved in the particular case of our own his brains and our minds in the context of the earthly environment. With that grand vision Nick thank you very much for the book for our conversation I thoroughly enjoyed it. To watch complete conversations with over 100 of the world's leading thinkers on cosmos consciousness and meaning visit our website closer to truth.com.
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