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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Relationship Between Consciousness and Wakefulness

Many people as you said conflate with consciousness as a mental property. Can you break those apart for me? How is being conscious, non synonymous with being awake in the human sense? Sure. Let's talk about some of the aspects of consciousness that you have identified as being distinct. There are at least three. We can do different kinds of experiments and try to isolate distinct phenomenal properties in their mechanistic basis by making these distinctions. You can be conscious when you're asleep. This is called dreaming. So you're physiologically asleep, but you're having a vivid inner life there. And on the other side, where consciousness science, the rubber of consciousness science hits the road of neurology

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