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#34 Anil Seth - A New Science of Consciousness

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The Importance of Sensory Experience

We need to give it senses, right? You talk about senses and the balance between our prediction and the raw material of experience being so crucial. It'd be like a brain locked in its skull with no sense of sight or hearing or touch or balance or bodily position or any of the senses. Can't you make sense of the brain like that even being conscious? Right. They're probably not. That's one of these interesting but impractical thought experiments.

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