So now, so let's talk about the problem of life then. The origins of life has to be a transition in which you use, which the living system is using this process that's self-destructive, to keep the self-destructive processes from being self-destructive. But it has to use them to do this.

How is that even possible? Okay, I just finished editing this podcast. This is one of the most

deep technical talks. The first 20 minutes are difficult to follow and you may wonder where is it going and how

is it related to the topic at hand. What you'll notice that by the end, every tendril from every

argument gets tied together neatly and nicely. So look through the timestamps of what you're

interested in is specific subjects or watch until the end, all of it where it plays out like a

beautiful orchestra or a movie where all the storylines

start to intersect toward the end.

Today we talk about consciousness, why Darwinian evolution is incomplete, and the symbolic

grounding problem, which is another aspect of the hard problem of consciousness, which

I call the hard problem of meaning.

Professor Terence Deakin is a neuroanthropologist who's taught at Harvard for eight years, and is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He has an extraordinarily philosophical mind. He has studied under Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, even though he has major disagreements with him. And part of his aim is tackling the evolution of human cognition as well as the hard problem of consciousness, which in his view is not so hard.

Terence will be coming on again for a part two, so if you have questions, then do leave them in the comment section because I'll be calling from there.

I, or and my wife, read every single comment.

My name is Kurt Jymungle, and I have a background in mathematical physics, mainly in the theoretical end with unified theories,

and this channel is dedicated to the exploration of the variegated terrain of theories of everything,

from primarily a physics perspective, but as well as exploring the role that consciousness has, to the fundamental laws of nature, provided that those laws are even knowable to us,

and if they're not because of some variants of girdles and completeness theorem, then why? Why does that have any application to physics? If you're interested in hearing more podcasts like this, then do consider going to patreon.com slash kirtjymungle, or you can go to Theoriesof Everything.org and supporting with a contribution of whatever you like. As the only reason that I'm able to do this full time is because of the patrons, so the supporters like yourself, as well as the sponsors. Now speaking of sponsors, there are four, there's rocket money, there's Masterworks, there's Brilliant, and there's Uncommon Goods. The former two, Rocket Money and Masterworks, you'll hear at approximately 20 minutes, and then again at 40 minutes for roughly 60 seconds each, and as for Brilliant, it's also 60 seconds, which is occurring presently.

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