Right. We can put together almost any two words and imagine how the nebulous concepts those words…

Another fascinating aspect of humanity is our general inability to define in any meaningful way what we intend by the words we use. We happily throw around grandiose terms like Free Will and Consciousness without any real conception of what these words could possibly mean. We compound this error by imagining them to be all-or-nothing, so that we either have “free will” or we don’t; we either have “consciousness” or we don’t.
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Right. We can put together almost any two words and imagine how the nebulous concepts those words represent might be connected. “Talking galaxies” are a possibility.
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