Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness
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The Role of Perception in Meditation
Dennett: David Hume doesn't seem to have it all. He says there's nothing apart from what consciousness is at that very moment? There's no you that's perceiving it, right? We talked about this with Sam Harris when he was on last time, right? There's just that conscious experience, no experiencer that we can find. Now, here, I think he's saying something more radical. Even the fictional self then is not apparent once we really examine what's going on in the present moment. And maybe some people just have less of this intuition. Maybe they just don't have this coherent sense of self over time,. The narrative sense of self that I seem to
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