Eventually, brains will be measured in minute details and digitized. The connections in your brains (connectome) will become reproducible. It well may be that the complexity of the connectome facilitates the emergence of consciousness.
Limits of AI
If talking to AI via an intermediary, we are not able to distinguish between a human and a robot, does it mean that such a robot is conscious?
Living vs nonliving
The living can create a mental model of the world, plan, predict, act based on the prediction, and correct the model based on the result of the action or based just on the observations.
Mind and body united
Imagine humans in savanna a million years ago. Everything is subject to survival, whether they hunt or listen to stories sitting by the fire. What are these story about? About hunting, of course.
Harmful pleasure
Why unlimited indulging in savory pleasure is not good for you? If we still would like to taste something after we ate a lot already, does not it mean that the body indicates that more food is good for you?
Laws and life
Law is the law until somebody succeeds in challenging it. But to succeed, one has to have public opinion (life) on his side.
What is your postal (zip) code?
People with similar interests and lifestyle live in the same neighborhood. And if you have been raised there, you adopted the same lifestyle and world view.
It from bit
“A single question animates this report: Can we ever expect to understand existence? … Surely someday, we can believe, we will grasp the central idea of it…” John Wheeler.
Why education?
Systematic education is necessary to fill all the gaps in the world view. Otherwise, they are filled with myths and superstitions.
Tomb of Genghis Khan
No Genghis Khan’s tomb or his children and grandchildren was discovered yet. They robbed vast territories and brought a lot of wealth back to Mongolia, but those valuable pieces have not turned up anywhere yet, not in any significant quantity at least. Why? Where are they?