Comments by "Greg Bailey" (@gregbailey45) on "Lex Fridman" channel.

  1. At around 30 minutes, talking about dreaming, and how dreaming allows or enables us to be in totally unrealistic situations, and yet not be surprised, is very interesting. Sam then goes on to say that this experience is very ephemeral and obviously invented by our brains and that we seem to lose the ability to see how bizarre it is, being in such a situation. Having recently had cataract surgery, both eyes, and now emerging into a conscious world where everything has gone visually from 'standard definition' or worse, to 4K or better, I now realise how my world has ever so gradually been restricting and removing me visually from reality over decades. The experience for me in this 'New World' is almost shocking, surprising, and at times overwhelming, even though I not only expected it but looked forward to it. The sensory deprivation I had been experiencing (until the last few years when I became painfully aware of it) was so profound that I had become quite withdrawn, depressed and sensing the limits imposed by mortality, that the idea of suicide did not seem too ridiculous, despite having no intention at all to apply it. As one ages and the senses all deteriorate at the same time, one is confronted more and more with the awareness of consciousness as the last bastion of awareness, of being human. As you retreat more and more into a 'cocoon' of your body's own making due to the gradual shutdown of the senses, and having to rely more and more on the support of others, you are confronted increasingly with the reality that this fundamental 'awareness', 'concsciousness' or whatever it is, is all you truly possess. The loss of even that eventually seems to become acceptable. Meanwhile, I'm blown away by my new 4K world, and enjoying, like a little kid, every moment of it!
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