Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Startalk folks have an interesting discussion with David Krakauer.

One thing that jumped out to me is the idea that consciousness is the ability to sense the exterior world, This leads to the realization that all matter is the universe senses that gravitational influence of every other particle in the universe and that goes down a very long rabbit hole.

Also, do you know how to use a sextant, a slide rule, an abacus? Are you dumber if you don’t? What happens when we move away from understanding why things work and just depend on the output of the work?