Is the universe actually conscious? Rethinking everything we know.

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[00:00:00]Okay. So, it depends on how you want to frame the question of of the emergence of consciousness. If if you're framing it in the in the case where you're saying, "I'm going to start with a physical system that's not conscious. And my question is, what can I do with that physical system to make consciousness emerge?"

[00:00:17]Then I say, "You can't do that." It it will never happen.

[00:00:20]>> But your take is that everything is already conscious.

[00:00:22]>> That's that that's right. So, so I'm giving a So, you can see why we have to be very careful about our assumptions.

[00:00:27]Most of my colleagues are are starting with space and time as fundamental, and they're saying that they're they're of course they're not conscious, and so we're trying to figure out what neural structures or neural activities or properties are going to be required, what functional properties.