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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Consciousness in IIT

Kibai is motivating a number of interesting empirical developments that tell us something about the neuronal basis of conscious level and how it interacts with content. There's this thing called the Persubation Complexity Index, which is basically you use transcranial magnetic simulations. This gets us right back to where our conversation started about distinguishing conscious level from wakefulness. And we've been doing the same thing without the stimulation, just calculating the complexity, the signal diversity of spontaneous EGG tracks in a very, very nice way.

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