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#113 — Consciousness and the Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Isa, Photo Diode Not Conscious?

i think the idea informativeness is that specific experience which you're having in that meditative state of becoming aware of one taste, or of the unchanging nature that underlies all experiences. Its a very specific experience. You have to have trained in meditation for a long time to have that experience. And the having of that experience is equally distinctive. It's ruling out all the other experienceis when youare not having that experience. So i think there's a sense in which we can interpret information as applying to a whole range of different kinds of conscious contents. But this does get us onto tricky territory about whether we're talking about a theory of levelorr a theory of content.

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