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Self, Senses, Awareness, the World... Hallucinations? Dr. Tony Nader with Dr. Anil Seth

Consciousness Is All There Is

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What Is Consciousness?

i spent a week with octopuses about go more than ten years ago now. It really stayed with me as being in the presence of creatures sharing a common physical environment, but experiencing that very differently. And just wondering what the inner world of an octopus might be like. Because peter godfrey smith, in his wonderful book, other minds, talks about this very beautifully too. I don't think anybody can definitive answer. But it's at these fringes that are intuitions antik become very, very unreliable and we should acknowledge their unreliability.

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