
#96 — The Nature of Consciousness
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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Is There a Zombi?
" consciousness nomologically supervenes upon the physical or something like that," he says. " Consciousness may only hold in this world with these laws of nature, but it's not conceptually some that may hold across all possible worlds." The idea is that we can always imagine that sam harris is a zomby and would talk about his sense and his color experiences, but he would not have any in such an inner perspective,. That's the idea. In a zombi, is just a perfectly humanoid robot that has no subjectivityor qualitative experience.
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