{"id":3428,"date":"2025-08-04T01:02:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2025-08-03T14:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:11:39","slug":"blindsided-11-consciousness-is-a-bug-not-a-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/?p=3428","title":{"rendered":"Blindsided 11: Consciousness Is a Bug, Not a Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51arrvR+m3L._SL500_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Join Brian and Steven as the scramblers and the vampire demon challenge the value of the very essence of of what makes us us.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the awesome <a href=\"https:\/\/blindsided.replit.app\/#\">companion website<\/a> sxp made!<\/p>\n<p>The book doesn&#8217;t have chapters in the traditional sense, but it does have natural stopping points separated by quotes.<\/p>\n<p>The starting quote for this episode is: <strong>&#8220;If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn&#8217;t.&#8221; \u2014Emerson M. Pugh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This episode&#8217;s discussion ends at the quote:<strong>&#8220;You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.&#8221; \u2014Einstein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last quote in the book is: <\/span><strong>Species used to go extinct. 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