Michael Pollan
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You got to start with consciousness and matter comes second.
The argument for it is there's nothing you know with more certainty than consciousness.
It's the thing you know directly.
Everything else you know is inferred.
You see through consciousness.
So why is it that we privilege the thing we infer rather than the thing we know?
Why do we privilege matter as the ultimate source of everything?
I was like...
Now, maybe a smarter person than me knows there's a logical fallacy there.
I don't know.
I don't see where it is.
the waves that it was absorbing are gone.
Yeah.
And you shouldn't look in the TV set for the weatherman, right?
I mean, you know, that's kind of what we're doing.
But it's channeling this information from the universe.
And that's why the brain is involved in a critical way.
And if you damage the brain, you damage consciousness or anesthetize the brain or whatever.
But it's involved in a different way.
And the evidence...