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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Informational Content in Meditation

A photo diode isn't having an experience of darkness and lightness. It's just on or off, one or zero. That has exactly the same informational content as does a very vivid, busy conscious scene walking down the high street. So I think there's a sense in which we can interpret this axiom of informativeness as applying to a whole range of different kinds of conscious contents.

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