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Um, look, it's-- philosophers distinguish lots of different senses of, of consciousness.

Self-consciousness, what, uh, Ned Block called access consciousness, uh, creature consciousness, and there are lots and lots of others.

Access consciousness, for example, is when information is available to awareness.

It's what Freud had in mind when he said, "This is deep in your unconscious." He didn't mean, oh, you know about it, but it didn't feel a particular way.

He meant you didn't know about it.

It was in your mind in some way, but you couldn't access it, and that's clearly a real sense of consciousness.

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So Neil, tell us just exactly what is luck.

I think of luck as chanciness.

So things happen, uh, in the universe.

Some of those things could easily have gone otherwise.

So, uh, when you, uh, take a, a shot on the pool table, if you're really, really good, then luck doesn't have a huge amount, uh, to do with, with what happens because you can't easily have missed a simple shot.

But if it's me, and I'm taking a, a shot on the pool table, and I sink the black, that's probably luck because things could easily have gone otherwise.

I could easily have mi- have missed 'cause I'm not very skilled.

Yeah, it reminded me, there's a famous quote from a golfer, uh, who said, "The more I practice, the luckier I get." Though, according to Neil's definition of luck, perhaps the quote should be, "The more I practice, the less lucky I get."