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#96 — The Nature of Consciousness

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Consciousness Problem

The hard problem isn't so much a statement about what is true, it's just a statement about the seeming limits of explanation. It sounds to me that whatever you put in the space provided will still sound like the restatement of a miracle. O mayby we should just stard say, nically, the heart problem is that phenomenal properties only nomologically supervene on functional properties, but not logically. But there are other worlds where we can imagine that the bat is a zombi with exactly that information flow in its brain. There could always be a functional isomorf to sam writes some, some entity that has the same o functions on em soman level of gran

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