
#34 Anil Seth - A New Science of Consciousness
Within Reason
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The Mystery of Color
All consciousness is correlated, at least as far as we know, with some kind of brain activity. But the mystery is that if I were to cut open your brain, crudely speaking, I'm not going to find red in your brain. Does this not imply that redness itself is non material, because it's not anywhere to be found in the material brain? And yet we know that it exists because we can see it right now. So I think what it points to is that something like color has two different aspects. It has a subjective and experiential side of it, the feeling of experiencing color. And there's an implementation side ofIt, what's actually happening in the
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