Are we hallucinating ourselves? | Anil Seth
Philosophy For Our Times
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What Is Consciousness?
consciousness is not the same thing as life. There are many differences. What seems mysterious from one particular point with the concepts and tools that you have, may not always seem mysterious. For me, this is the way to understand consciousness, to isolate its properties and account for them. So what are the properties of consciousness? Wele in the book and in my work with my lab, we divide it into three ways: conscious level, how conscious you are at any particular time, difference between anaesthesia and normal conscious wakefulness,. or other states like the psychedalic state, minimumly conscious state. And an important subside of that is self, the experience of being a self.
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