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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Relationship Between Cognitive Interpretation and Perception of Physiological Change

In this view, we can immediately think of emotional conscious experiences. Emotions become predictions about the causes of interreceptive signals in just the same way that experiences the outside world are constituted by predictions of the causes of sensory signals. This gives a nice computational and mechanistic gloss on pretty old theories of emotion that originate with William James and Carl Langer. The purpose of perceiving the body from within is really not at all to do with figuring out what's there. My brain couldn't care less that my internal organs are objects and they have particular locations within my body. Couldn't care less about that. And I think that gets it.

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