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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Pernicious Anthropology of Consciousness

In terms of comparing ourselves to so-called lower animals, where do you think consciousness emerges? Do you think there's something that's like to be a fly, say? That's a really hard problem. And again, it's just striking how people in general's views on these things seems to have changed over the last recent decades. It seems completely unarguable to me that other mammals, all other mammals, have conscious experiences of one sort or another.

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