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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Hard Problem With Memory

Most people think there was a hiatus in consciousness, but we just don't remember what it's like to be deeply asleep. I'm someone who often doesn't remember his dreams, and I'm prepared to believe that I dream every night. We know, even in the case with general anesthesia, they give amnesic drugs so that you won't remember whatever they don't want you to remember. But at the same time, there's all the difference in the world between the twilight zone and full on general anesthesia. It's not just that I don't remember anything. It's the real sense of,. of a hiatus of consciousness, of a complete interruption and a complete instantaneous resumption of

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