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EP.187 - ANIL SETH

THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST

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What Is Consciousness?

consciousness is what goes away when you go under general anaesthesia or when you fall into a dreamless sleep, no dreams. But in a state of sleep where you just go out, that's what goes away. It's the consciousness that goes away, and that comes back again when you wake up. We're not aware li. I'm not aware of what my neurons are doing at all. The result of that is my awareness of the world and of being being myself. N the brain is generating the experience of self in the same way that it's generating an experience of te world as well. They're both different kinds of perception. And i suppose that makes me think a little bit

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