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#1180 Mind-F*ckery - Dr. Philip Goff

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The Consciousness of Life

I think a lot of us really do get our sense of self from like our beliefs and now our stuff. And that's a pretty slippery slope to live on as well. Thomas Nagel, very, very influential philosopher, he had this paper in the 1970s called What's It Like To Be A Bat? He defined consciousness with this phrase, what it's like to be so he says something's conscious if there's something that it'slike to be it. There'll always be something we don't know, no matter how much scientifically we learn about the bat. I suppose I just generally use the word experience or subjective experience or what it’s like to be you.

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