How the Brain Constructs Reality: Interview with Andy Clark
A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar
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The Hard Problem of Consciousness
The book's called the experience machine it that does suggest that it should be saying something about what Dave Chalmers calls a hard problem which is the question of why experience feels the way it does to us. We've got a very simple predictive model that we use to make sense of our own behavior and that of other people but perhaps this is a case where it's just a simple model that enables useful prediction of myself and others in a social setting. What do you see as the major objections to your claim there so do you have us pay a couple of hours yeah in the process? You know I'll say I do with 50% confidence okay I appreciate the the number that’s important
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