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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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IIT Predicts That Your Conscious Experience Has Changed Because of That

I think these are the problems you get into when you try to go after the hard problem. And certainly, this spatial temporal grain one, I think, is potentially the weakest of all that he puts forward. But in general, experiences do rule out, do pick out one particular conscious scene among a large number of possibilities and they do so in a generally integrated way. It's kind of annoying, but also illuminating that when you develop empirically applicable measures based on these insights, in practice, they really don't seem to work very well.

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