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#96 — The Nature of Consciousness

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

Conceivability arguments are just a very, very weak. If you have an ill defined, folk psychological umbrella term like consciousness, then you can pull off all kinds of scenarios and zombi thought experiments. It doesn't really help to clarify some issues in the mid nineties a but the consciousness community has listened to this and just moved on. I mean, no body of the serious researches in the field thinks about this any more,. But it has taken on like a folcaristic life of its own. As a lot of people talk about the hard problem, who wouldn't be able to state what it consists in? And i've always thought that that is a good definition

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