
#96 - The Nature of Consciousness
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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Introduction
Thomas Metzinger is a full professor and director of the theoretical philosophy group at Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany. Thomas gives us the German view of current US politics, but then we go deep into questions of consciousness and the self. We talk about the role of intuition in science, the ethics of building conscious AI,. The self as a hallucination, how we identify with our thoughts and the paradox of doing that.
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