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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Information in Consciousness Research

I think you can lose your sense of self with all of the normal phenomenology preserved. This is a different experience I'm talking about. Yes, I mean, that sounds like flow state type experiences in some way but maybe we can get on to that. But if we move indeed to IIT and think about how that might speak to these issues of pure consciousness,. whether these experiences serve as some kind of counter example, some phenomenological counter example to IIT? And it gets at whether we consider IIT integrated information theory to be primarily a theory of conscious level of how conscious a system is or of conscious content or of their interaction.

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