
#113 — Consciousness and the Self
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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Information Theory
The number of states over which you can range as a conscious mind defines how much information is incoded when you're in one of those states. The identity relationship that tonone argues for between integrated information and consciousness means the whole theory becomes empirically untestable and lame, says sam harris. If it's possible to augment my brain even now, or it'll be possible next week, do we have to incorporate those possibilitioif you'd like to continue listening to this poncast, please subscribe at sam harris dot org. He'll get access to all full length episodes of the making sense poncast. And to other subscribeor only content, including bonos
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