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#113 — Consciousness and the Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Hard Problem Is Consciousness

For me, the hard problemis never really rested on the zombe argument. I don't think it loses all of its forcor at least it doesn't for me. It's just a fact that we live in a universe where, if you built something, they could do what i can do and would be conscious. So there is no zombe, sam, that's possible. And when you get to the details, you're not even conceiving of its being possible. It's not even conceptually possible. You're not thinking it through enough. If you did, you would notice it break apart.

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