Month: September 2025
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In my last post, “The Emergent Mind: Where is the Soul?“, we followed the story of Mike. Through his tragedy, we explored a that what we call the “self” may not be an eternal soul, but a fragile narrative woven from memory and experience, sustained by the biological computer of our brain. We concluded that…
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In my first post, The emergent mind : How Evolution Stumbled Into Consciousness, I described how biological evolution accidentally created consciousness. And in this post I hope to delve in to what I think is the structure of consciousness and how a sense of self emerges from it. So let’s take a look at the…
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Consider the humble amoeba. It doesn’t think, it doesn’t feel. It simply is. Through sheer randomness, the ones that could effectively split and consume resources propagated, and with that propagation, the ability to split and consume resources persisted. This is the raw, unfeeling engine of natural selection.For billions of years, this was how biological evolution…
