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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Identity Relationship Between Information and Consciousness

The number of states over which you can range as a conscious mind defines how much information is encoded when you're in one of those states. The whole theory becomes empirically untestable and lame because if we're to make the claim that the content and level of consciousness that a system has is identical to the amount of integrated information, it's just impossible for anything other than really simple toy systems. There's a metaphysical claim which goes along with this too, which is that information has ontological status. I mean, who knows what theOntological status of information in the universe will turn out to be?

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