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#113 — Consciousness and the Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Hard Problem, Easy Problem - Isn't It?

Yowell: We need to retain a focus on phenomenology. The hard problem kind of gathers within its remit everything to do with phenomenologya in this thi central mystery of wyses. And the negative aspect is, why should we ask more of a theory of consciousness than we should ask of other kinds of scientific theories? Yowell: There's no sense in which a good theory of consciousness should be expected to suddenly realize the phenomenal properties that its explaining. But also, i worry that we ask too much of theories of consciousness this way.

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