Colin McGinn

Yeah.

And another interesting thing, just before we get to one of these very interesting solutions to this problem that we encounter is something actually that I read in one of Colin McGinn's books.

Which is to say that another unique element of consciousness is that with life, there is something contiguous about it.

All new life emerges from life.

Whereas with consciousness, there is a point at which, for every conscious being, they are, at least in a more traditional view of the world, unconscious matter.

That unconscious matter is produced in these very basic sex cells, which at some point in its development either suddenly switches on, becomes conscious, or slowly a sort of consciousness emerges in it.

And Colin McGinn's fascination with this is that consciousness didn't just happen once.

But it's constantly occurring for the first time ever, billions and billions of times a day in all the life forms that are being born and suddenly turning on, as it were.

Cinema.

Cinema, there's a great book about cinema by, by a guy called Colin McGinn.

It's called The Power of Movies, and he talks about how, you know, you can't really show the inner life of a person, but with cinema you can show the outer person with maximal intensity until it reveals their inner life.

A close-up, for example, seems like the only instrument that exists outside of lovers in bed where you can stare at a person so close that you can almost read their minds.