EP.187 - ANIL SETH
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST
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What Is Consciousness?
Your book is all about consciousness. How do you define it? What is consciousness? This is indeed the starting point. It's easy to get hung up on trying to define it, and people will always disagree. We're all very possessive of our own consciousness. In fact, that is probably the best definition: any kind of subjective experience whatsoever. There's a philosopher called tom nagel who defined it in a very simple way,. might seem even a bit trivial. He said, for a conscious organism, there is something it is like to be that organism. That's an ery uninformative definition but i think it focuses on the fact that consciousness is all about experience.
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