Michael Levin

But, but, but mostly, you know, I think you just, you just live as if, as if, as if you can make plans.

I don't know that that's a well-posed question other than the existential question you posed before.

Maybe.

I'm not sure that any of these things really ride on the correctness of our scientific understanding of it.

I mean, just for an example, right?

I've always found it weird that people...

get really worked up uh to find out realities about their their bodies for for example right that you've seen them uh ex machina you've seen that right and so so there's this great scene where he's cutting his hand to find out he's you know a piece full of cock now to me right

if if i open up and i find out and i find a bunch of cogs my conclusion is not oh crap i must not have true cognition that sucks my conclusion is wow cogs can have true cognition great so right so so it seems to me i guess i guess i'm with descartes on this one that whatever whatever the truth uh ends up being of of of how is what is consciousness how it can be conscious none of that is going to alter um my primary experience which is this is what it is and if

And if a bunch of molecular networks can do it, fantastic.

If it turns out that, um, there's a, there's a non-corporeal, you know, soul, uh, great.

We can, you know, we'll study that, whatever.

But, but the fundamental, um, existential aspect of it is, you know, if somebody, if somebody told me, uh, today that, uh, yeah, yeah, you were created yesterday and all your memories are, you know, sort of, uh, fake, you know, kind of like, um, uh, like, like Boltzmann brains, right.

And Hume, you know, Hume's skepticism and all that, uh,

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, so, so, but, but here I am now.

I think so.

I think so from a first person perspective now from a third person, like scientifically, it's all very interesting from a third person perspective.

I could say, wow, that's, that's amazing that, that this happens and how does it happen and whatever.

But from a first person perspective, I could care less.