Consciousness & Fiction: Erik Hoel
Musing Mind Podcast
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The Conscious Experience of a Buddhist Monk
I think a lot of criticism is brought up and kind of very unhelpfully framed in a binary that like either you go meditate in India and drop acid for the rest of your life, or like you become a neuroscientist. I don't think we're at this kind of standoff between those two. The goal of the book is to be like, okay, so this is what it's like to be Kirk. And even with a perfect scientific theory of consciousness, it's unclear that you could ever transmit what it isLike this. It may still be the case that the best way to do it is still, you know, sitting down with Microsoft Word and figuring out how to
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