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Episode 49: Oxford Psychedelics Society Panel

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What Is Consciousness?

I think physicalism is er incoherent, internally incoherent in the sense that it contains internal contradictions and vastly empirically inadequate. And i think constitutive enpychism is physically incoherent. It makes premises, assumptions or postulates that contradict physics, and also empirically inadequate. Amissing rupert: I would like to use my two minutes to respond to title of this discussion, namely, what is consciousness? Ultimately, consciousness cannot be defined, because to do so, i would suggest, is trying to define the whole in terms of its parts. But i will attempt at making a provisional definition of consciousness. The dreaming mind must overlook itself, or

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