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Time: 40:20 (or so)
"The probability at the moment is that we misunderstood the brain, that the brain is more a receiver or a transceiver of consciousness than a generator of consciousness."
Time: 42:00 (or so)
"This is so patronizing. We have to give the credit to other adults, you know. We can't put ourselves in a position where we are making decisions for other adults about what they need to know. That's the death of freedom of speech. The moment that we start protecting our audiences from facts, that's the end of freedom of speech. That's the paternalistic model stepping back in. Its really most unfortunate that these subjects cannot be discussed, particularly when there are dazzling research breakthroughs now taking place with psychedelics, which are being proven to be powerful agencies of healing, particularly for people with post traumatic stress disorder, or terminal cancer patience given psilocybin and losing their fear of death. Incredible research is being done, so you know, if the [unintelligible] organizations are really seeking to impose a fatwa over these kinds of discussions they are making a huge mistake, and they're out of step with history."
1. Is the human brain the generator of consciousness or the receiver?
2. Does free speech end the moment the decision is made to censor information based upon the idea that censorship is done to "protect society" from the censored information?