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Welcome to the visionaries shevardnadze humanity has been searching for the seeds of consciousness for thousands of years all my guest today believes we might finally be on the path to finding them im joined by dr stuart hamer of anesthesiologist and director of the center for consciousness studies. Dr stuart hamer us anna says ya just iraq sure of center for consciousness studies its really great to have you here with us today consciousness is like one of my favorite topics so i cant wait to dig into your brain so you said that some concepts of consciousness are naive what concepts and why are they naive. Most people would say that the brain is a computer of neurons acting as bits like individual on off states and that if you get sufficient complexity in competition that consciousness emerges but really theres no evidence for that that consciousness is an emergent property of computation its an assumption that the brain is a computer but theres no evidence for that and i think its a i
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