Second part of conversation with science fiction author Peter Watts, on the possibly mal-adaptive nature of consciousness, meat robots, cognitive capacity, Julian Jaynes and mounding fullness, consciousness vs. self-awareness, conditioning experiments, the cognitive feats of corbetts, the Cambridge declaration and self-aware octopi, why sex feels good, fractal geometry and healthy environments, does consciousness subvert the ... Read moreLiminalist # 25.5: The Brain Eaters (with Peter Watts)