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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Hard Problem Residue

I think it's an open question whether the analogy will turn out to be false or not. The alternative approach, and this is something I've kind of caricatured as the real problem, but David Charmus himself has called it the mapping problem. And we may have to make use of novel kinds of conceptual frameworks in order to build these explanatory bridges. So I think we can get a lot closer. There's no sense in which scientific explanations are instantiations of phenomenal properties that should be expected to suddenly be good theories.

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