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#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning
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Free Will and Consciousness
The problem with free will is that what most people mean by it, and this is where Dan Dennett is going to get off the ride here. If we just imagine the consciousness at some point comes along for the ride as you scale up in intelligence, then we could find ourselves creating conscious minds that are miserable. That's just like creating a person who's miserable. It could be even more sensitive to suffering. Like watching a person suffer for entertainment. But back to your primary question here, which is differentiating consciousness and self and free will as concepts and degrees of alusoryness.
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