This is a HeadGum Podcast. I don't know what to think

I don't know what to say

and that's all right

yeah that's all right

that's okay

I don't know anything.

Hello, welcome to factually, I'm Adam Conover,

and one of my earliest memories

is riding the school bus, looking out the window and wondering,

why is my mind in this body? I mean, to be fair, my mind went a lot of weird places during those days.

Sometimes, instead of asking that question, I would imagine that I had an ultra-thin,

infinitely long knife that I could hold out from the bus window.

And as we drove down the road, everything we passed was silently and effortlessly cut in half

toppling over behind us like a dumberina samurai movie.

I mean, I was a weird kid, okay?

But, look, getting back on track.

That question, why is my mind in this body? I puzzled over it endlessly. Like I was

aware, even at that young age, that my conscious experience, this continuous

feeling of being me was produced by my brain, by the piece of meat

residing inside my skull. But also I was aware that there were billions and billions of other humans

with billions and billions of their own skull meets out there.

So why did my consciousness arise in between this set of ears on Long Island, New York, in the mid-90s,

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