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#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning

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Is There an Illusion of Consciousness?

There's something we don't understand that's fundamental about the nature of reality that generates both consciousness, let's call it maybe the self. Consciousness can't be an illusion because any illusion proves its reality as much as any other, very vertical perception. If you're hallucinating now, that's just as much of a demonstration of consciousness as really seeing what's a quote actually there. You can be confused about literally everything. It's the seeming that is the cash value of consciousness. We mean many different things by this notion of self. Maybe we'll actually just differentiate these things.

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