Dr. Christof (Christoph) Koch

dissociative states or where they feel themselves floating or they can hear themselves have a conversation, but observing themselves having a conversation.

So we know some of the self, you know, the sense of self here.

And we also know doing meditation and doing psilocybin, those areas are reduced.

So, yeah, there is a footprint for everything we experience.

There is a footprint in the brain.

That doesn't mean we can reduce it to the brain.

Not at all.

But there is a physical neuronal correlate of it.

And Francis Crick and I, of course, used to call this neural correlates of consciousness and try to pursue it.

Well, you never left the perception box because it is your construction of reality.

Well, we could also have what some people in the Bayesian community calls a metaprior.

So you have your priors, right?

So the priors are all the assumptions that let you judge a fact, supposedly fact.

So to stay with yesterday's examples, trying not to politicize it, but you may have read after the assassination was announced in the House that

the speaker called for 30 seconds of silence, which was fine, and then someone called for prayer, said out loud, and then all pandemonium broke out, okay?

So among the representatives, they screamed at each other.

You know, it only took this one thing, and then suddenly, because they have radical different priors, they just have, they're partly, you know, your two, the ones that you described,

But what they should do is sort of have a meta prior.

Okay, wait a minute.

We're now screaming at each other.