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EP.187 - ANIL SETH

THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST

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What Is the Answer to Consciousness?

I was always suspicious, and still am, about ideas of soul. Have actualy become a little bit more sympathetic to the idea of a soul now. But not as a thing, not as an essence, but more of a basic description of wha it feels like to be a conscious being. I no longer think that the answer to consciousness is going to come from some eureka moment that revolutionizes physics. And i'm not sure how coincidentl this is, but half way through th university, i just hid a ceiling with my ability in mat and physics. It went from being easy to being absolutely impossible, and i just couldn't do it at all any more.

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