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Anil Seth explores the mystery of consciousness

The TED Interview

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Are You Conscious?

It's possible to be conscious without being self-conscious. This might apply to infants, it might apply to people with dementia. You can suffer without being a person over time that remembers that suffering. There's the more fundamental question of what other organisms have conscious experiences at all.

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