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#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is It an Illusion Constructed by Humans?
I don't have intuitions that single cells are likely to be conscious, but they might be. But as far as babies not being conscious or you're not, you don't become conscious until you can recognize yourself in a mirror or treat other people. So there's structure there that we have put in place based on all of our conceptual learning and language learning. It causes us not to... One of the things that happens when you take psychedelics and you just look as though for the first time at anything, it becomes incredibly overloaded with meaning. And that tends to just obliterate one's capacity to capture any of it linguistically.
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