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Episode #179 ... Why is consciousness something worth talking about?

Philosophize This!

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The Subjective Experience of Redness

Some philosophers call this phenomenal consciousness. Some call it subjective experience, some call these subjective experiences qualia. It could be that consciousness is something fundamentally different than the material world and therefore may not be something we can even study empirically. There's a unified stream of you being a continuous self with continuity to time, continuity to your identity. The billions of phenomena that come into your awareness are presented in a digested format that you seemingly are able to organize.

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