Roger Walsh - Does Consciousness Have Purpose?

Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN How has inner experience radically emerged from cosmic dust? How has our vibrant private awareness developed in what seems to be a wholly physical universe? Is consciousness only an accident of biology? Or does consciousness have deeper meaning? We best be careful not to come to final conclusions based on early science. Watch more interviews on the purpose of consciousness: https://bit.ly/3LhQSUW Support the show with Closer To Truth merchandise: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje Roger N. Walsh is an Australian professor of Psychiatry, Philosophy, and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, within UCI’s College of Medicine. Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: https://bit.ly/3He94Ns Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.