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We don't control our thoughts - they emerge spontaneously
  • Thoughts appear without conscious intention
  • Sentence endings unpredictable as they begin
  • Parallels between human cognition and AI text generation
  • Challenges notion of centralized 'self'
Yuval Noah HarariPeople by WTF00:59:01

Supporting quotes

“People are under the impression that I am thinking my thoughts, I am my thoughts... When you actually look... you see words popping in your mind, and where do they come from?” — Yuval Noah Harari
“The sentence I just said, 'I don't know how it will end.' When I started saying it, I didn't know that the last word in the sentence will be 'end'.” — Yuval Noah Harari

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The Consciousness Conundrum

Harari explores the mystery of human consciousness through meditation, revealing how thoughts arise spontaneously without a central 'self' controlling them.

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