Dr. Christof (Christoph) Koch

assume that what's called the grandmother hypothesis, just a term that the field came up with for very historical reason, the idea that neurons in your brain that represent your grandmother is obviously ridiculous.

But it turned out, no.

If your grandmother is an important person for you, you probably very likely will have neurons that fire in response to grandma.

2,000 years ago was written probably for himself, not for posterity, the emperor, you know, second century emperor.

One of the particular times of crisis, you know, teaches you about mindfulness in a very different, in this Roman context.

The only thing you can control is how you respond to events.

Again, I can control my emotional response to it.

Really wonderful book that I've given to my kids and I've given to friends and to other people, Confessions of Marcus Aurelius.

I do, yeah.

I find myself, we find ourselves in a universe that's strangely conducive to life and to conscious life.

Like you could say we live in a universe that's conducive to consciousness.

you know, some version of the entropic principle.

We don't know why.

We also live in a universe that I think is ultimately fundamentally phenomenal mental.

The mental evolves on its own laws that I don't have access to.

I'm part of it.

I will return to this mental that's as far as I've gotten.

I don't know.

Is there some sort of, you know, do you know what the Christian thinker, Taylor de Chardin,

You know, so he was a Jesuit and a paleontologist, and he had this point omega, this hypothesis of point omega, the entire universe is evolving.