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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Connection Between Perception and Action

The most basic cycle of perception and action doesn't involve the outside world at all. It's only about regulating the internal milieu, the internal physiology of the body to keep it within viable physiological bounds. That's fundamentally what brains are for. They're for helping creatures stay alive. And I think this gives us a clue here about why experiences of mood and emotion feel like the most basic essence of selfhood have this non object like character.

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