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#113 — Consciousness and the Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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What Is Consciousness?

consciousness is the basis of all our happiness and suffering. It's the space in which anything that matters can matter. Wih told start with many of the usual starting points here, because i think they're the usual starting point for a reason. We don't sort of take the definition and then transcribe it into scientific knowledge in a unidirectional way. So so long as we're talking past each other d we agree tat  consciousness picks out a very significant phenomenon in nature,. he says.

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