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A world of illusions | James Ladyman, Peter Atkins, Joanna Kavenna

Philosophy For Our Times

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What Are Sensations?

The self is a self awareness, isn't it really? It's being aware that one exists. I think weo can't got down this rubber hole. Think we go t go down the cell ir go gon nto discussion on the self. But what do you mean? i suppose you have to step back and say, well, what are what are sensations? All sensations are touch in the sense of 'hearing' or 'listening', for example. A sight, in a sense, is touch, because a it depends upone shape of a retinal molecule inside a protein. And as soon as the light hits it and changes its shape, the touch of that molecule to

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