Cory Lanker - Conscious Permanence

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Cory Lanker

Building Better Responses

Ask yourself how you respond in this situation: A car speeds around you and cuts you off, a careless and rude act. Some of us, like me, can react poorly in these situations. But we don't have to react that way. The difficulty is that your reaction is

You're Not a Puppet

The Paradox of Choice in a Deterministic Brain Here's a paradox: If your brain operates deterministically—meaning identical conditions produce identical outcomes—then how can you genuinely choose anything? If you don't make genuine choices, you would be a biological puppet, directed only by the strings

Willpower Won't Save You

Willpower won't save you from poor actions ... because it doesn't work the way you think it does. We imagine willpower as the ability to simply decide differently in the moment. But neuroscience shows that by the time you're in the moment, your response is

Welcome!

Welcome to the Conscious Permanence Project, a mixture of science and philosophy that explores an intriguing possibility: that every moment of consciousness may exist forever. This philosophy can transform how we understand consciousness, time, and the significance of our daily choices. If spacetime exists as some physicists say it does,