But Whether We Want To Do It

When You Experience The Emotion Of Sadness, There Will Be Changes In Facial Expression, And Your Body Will Be Closed In, Withdrawn. There Are Also Changes In Your Heart, Your Guts: They Slow Down. And There Are Hormonal Changes.

I Think It's Reasonable To Say That Even Thought, In All Likelihood, We Have Slightly Different Experiences Of Reality, They Are Similar Enough To Us Not To Clash. In Other Words, I'm Not, It's Very Unlikely, In Fact, Let's Say Impossible, For You To Say The Situation In Which You And I Are In Right Now, Relative To The Machinery That Is Capturing This.

What Happens [in A Coma] Is That You Lose The Grounding Of The Self, You No Longer Have Access To Any Feeling Of Your Own Existence.

Consciousness Permits Us To Develop The Instruments Of Culture - Morality And Justice, Religion, Art, Economics And Politics, Science And Technology. Those Instruments Allow Us Some Measure Of Freedom In The Confrontation With Nature.

But Whether We Want To Do It Because We Want To Have People To Have A Different Idea Of Who We Are Or Not, We Do It Naturally. So The Way We Construct Our Narrative Is Different From The Way We Constructed It A Year Ago. The Difference Is Maybe Very Small Or It May Be Huge.