Season 3 Episode 1: Jeff Tweedy: Less Than You Think

Demystifying the Hard Problem of Consciousness with Computational Psychology

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Jeff Tweedy talks about the lyrics to "Less Than You Think" from Wilco's 2004 Grammy Winning Album, A Ghost is Born. We discuss creativity and his book How To Write One Song, spirituality with a capital S, atheism, 9/11, and everything in between. Cornell University computational psychologist, Dr. Shimon Edelman weighs in on the lyrics with his theory of consciousness: that human consciousness is entirely the product of a virtual reality simulation created by our brains.

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