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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Different Properties of the Social Self

I think there's going to be a range of, again, this falls out quite nicely from this predictive processing view where predictions are made with a specific degree of precision. And that can certainly be estimated and altered as well. So that if sensory signals seem to be unreliable, then the predictions will be less precise. I would imagine if you had people moving their hands, but you just moved the virtual hand much more or slightly differently than the actual movement, subjects would own it. It would be a certain degree of being out of register that would be owned without internal comment by the subject as his or her own action. But that's sorry, that's getting us into slightly different territory there.

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