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Rationally Speaking #242 - Keith Frankish on "Why consciousness is an illusion"

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Is It an Illusion?

If something is an illusion, you need to show people how the illusion is done. And they no longer feel like there is a mystery or magic to be explained any more. Nicholas humphrey thinks that we began to relish experience for its own sake. He calls the book soul dust. We began to conceive of ourselves as creatures that were specialth have this inner world which could perhaps survive death.

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