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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Hard Problem and the Easy Problem in Neuroscience

I agree with you that we could be misled about how unified consciousness is. The thing that's irreducible to me is this difference between there being something that it's like and not. There are many different ways in which the lights can be on in ways that would surprise us. We'll talk about split brain research, perhaps, but they're very counterintuitive ways the lights could be on. But just the question is always, is there something that is like to be that bit of information processing or that bit of matter? That is always the cash value of a claim for consciousness.

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