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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Problem With Theory of Consciousness

I worry that we ask too much of theories of consciousness this way. I think it's there are very few areas in science where the accepted explanation is totally a brute fact. The hope is that as we progress beyond, if you like, just brute correlates of conscious states, towards accounts that provide more satisfying bridges between mechanism and phenomenology. We've already moved further from just saying it's this area or that area to synchrony,. which is still kind of unsatisfying to now.

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