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Michael Graziano - Why did Consciousness Emerge?

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Published on 04 Feb 2024 / In News & Politics

Support the show and shop the Closer To Truth merch store: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje There was a time when there was no consciousness in our universe. Now there is. What caused consciousness to emerge? Did consciousness develop in the same way that, say, the liver or the eye developed, by random mutation and fitness selection during evolution? Inner experience seems to be radically different from anything else. Are we fooling ourselves? Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Michael Steven Anthony Graziano is an American scientist and novelist who is currently a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. His scientific research focuses on the brain basis of awareness. Watch more videos on consciousness as emergent: https://shorturl.at/lMWX6 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.

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