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#113 — Consciousness and the Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There a Phenomenal State?

Watt: It seems to me conceivable that there's a phenomenal state which is characterized by the absence of specific contents. But I'm somehow sceptical of people's reports of these states. And that, and this gets back to what we were talking about earlier, that we tend to somehow overestimate our ability to have insight into our phenomenal content at any time.

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