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#113 — Consciousness and the Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Consciousness Is Unique as a Concept

consciousness is unique as a concept in this sense. There are things about which we have a folk psychological sense, which completely break apart once you start studying them at the level of the brain. We're no longer talking about consciousness in nagal sense. We're talking about attention o we're talking about report ability or mere access and so on. So how do you feel about nagel's definition as a starting point? I like it very much as a starting points. And when we begin to move away from that definition into something more technical, my experience has beend. It will get to this as we go into the details.

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