Matthew MacDougall

in the sense that, I don't know, say, remove our addictive behaviors or tune our addictive behaviors for social media or our addiction to outrage, our addiction to sharing the most angry political tweet we can find. I don't think that leads to a functional society. And if you had... options for people to moderate that.

maladaptive behavior there could be huge benefits to society maybe we could all work together a little more harmoniously toward useful ends there's a sweet spot like you mentioned you don't want to completely remove all the dark sides of human nature because those kind of uh are somehow necessary to make the whole thing work but there's a sweet spot yeah i agree we gotta you gotta suffer a little just not so much that you lose hope

maladaptive behavior there could be huge benefits to society maybe we could all work together a little more harmoniously toward useful ends there's a sweet spot like you mentioned you don't want to completely remove all the dark sides of human nature because those kind of uh are somehow necessary to make the whole thing work but there's a sweet spot yeah i agree we gotta you gotta suffer a little just not so much that you lose hope

maladaptive behavior there could be huge benefits to society maybe we could all work together a little more harmoniously toward useful ends there's a sweet spot like you mentioned you don't want to completely remove all the dark sides of human nature because those kind of uh are somehow necessary to make the whole thing work but there's a sweet spot yeah i agree we gotta you gotta suffer a little just not so much that you lose hope

You know, I have this sense that I never found it, never removed it, you know, like a Dementor in Harry Potter. I have this sense that consciousness is a lot less magical than our instincts want to claim it is. It seems to me like a useful analog for thinking about what consciousness is in the brain.

You know, I have this sense that I never found it, never removed it, you know, like a Dementor in Harry Potter. I have this sense that consciousness is a lot less magical than our instincts want to claim it is. It seems to me like a useful analog for thinking about what consciousness is in the brain.

You know, I have this sense that I never found it, never removed it, you know, like a Dementor in Harry Potter. I have this sense that consciousness is a lot less magical than our instincts want to claim it is. It seems to me like a useful analog for thinking about what consciousness is in the brain.

We have a really good intuitive understanding of what it means to, say, touch your skin and know what's being touched, I think consciousness is just that level of sensory mapping applied to the thought processes in the brain itself. So what I'm saying is consciousness is the sensation of some part of your brain being active. So you feel it working.

We have a really good intuitive understanding of what it means to, say, touch your skin and know what's being touched, I think consciousness is just that level of sensory mapping applied to the thought processes in the brain itself. So what I'm saying is consciousness is the sensation of some part of your brain being active. So you feel it working.

We have a really good intuitive understanding of what it means to, say, touch your skin and know what's being touched, I think consciousness is just that level of sensory mapping applied to the thought processes in the brain itself. So what I'm saying is consciousness is the sensation of some part of your brain being active. So you feel it working.

You feel the part of your brain that thinks of red things or winged creatures or the taste of coffee. you feel those parts of your brain being active the way that I'm feeling my palm being touched, right? And that sensory system that feels the brain working is consciousness.

You feel the part of your brain that thinks of red things or winged creatures or the taste of coffee. you feel those parts of your brain being active the way that I'm feeling my palm being touched, right? And that sensory system that feels the brain working is consciousness.

You feel the part of your brain that thinks of red things or winged creatures or the taste of coffee. you feel those parts of your brain being active the way that I'm feeling my palm being touched, right? And that sensory system that feels the brain working is consciousness.

Which isn't like a warping of space-time or some quantum field effect, right? It's nothing magical. People always want to ascribe to consciousness. something truly different. And there's this awesome long history of people looking at whatever the latest discovery in physics is to explain consciousness because it's the most magical, the most out there thing that you can think of.

Which isn't like a warping of space-time or some quantum field effect, right? It's nothing magical. People always want to ascribe to consciousness. something truly different. And there's this awesome long history of people looking at whatever the latest discovery in physics is to explain consciousness because it's the most magical, the most out there thing that you can think of.

Which isn't like a warping of space-time or some quantum field effect, right? It's nothing magical. People always want to ascribe to consciousness. something truly different. And there's this awesome long history of people looking at whatever the latest discovery in physics is to explain consciousness because it's the most magical, the most out there thing that you can think of.

And people always, you know, want to do that with consciousness. I don't think that's necessary. It's just a, you know, a very useful and gratifying way of feeling your brain work.

And people always, you know, want to do that with consciousness. I don't think that's necessary. It's just a, you know, a very useful and gratifying way of feeling your brain work.

And people always, you know, want to do that with consciousness. I don't think that's necessary. It's just a, you know, a very useful and gratifying way of feeling your brain work.

Yeah.