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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Consciousness

consciousness is really the centre of the bullseye as far as my interests go. I think sometimes there's too much emphasis put on having a consensus technical definition of something like consciousness. We don't take the definition and then transcribe it into scientific knowledge in a unidirectional way. So long as we're not talking past each other and we agree that consciousness picks out a very significant phenomenon in nature which is the presence of subjective experience, then I think we're on reasonably safe terrain.

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