&430/ Watch to Be Inspired: Consciousness

Everybody is an expert!? Not a single cell knows who you are or cares.

Citing TED.com:

• The talk. "Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us."
• The speaker. "One of our most important living philosophers, Dan Dennett is best known for his provocative and controversial arguments that human consciousness and free will are the result of physical processes in the brain. He argues that the brain’s computational circuitry fools us into thinking we know more than we do, and that what we call consciousness - isn’t."

TED Talks 2003, Dan Dennett. View the talk!