Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Patrick House, he's a neuroscientist

and writer whose research focuses on free will and how mind control parasites alter their host's

behaviour. If it wasn't for us experiencing it, the universe would give us no indication

that consciousness even exists. The most fundamental part of human experience has many proposed

explanations but just how well grounded are these and what are we missing? Expect to learn why

removing parts of the brain change some aspects of the self but not all of them. What it's like for

animals who can put half of their brain to sleep at once, how the brain is intimately linked with

timekeeping, why almost all explanations of consciousness are unsatisfactory, what the future of brain

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