010 - Donald Hoffman
Robert Edward Grant - Think Tank
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The Theory of Consciousness
In cognitive neuroscience, many of my colleagues are trying to show that you can somehow boot up conscious experiences like emotions. No one's been able to come up with a single specific experience, a single emotion, for example, that they can say this is the circuit. There's not a single specific conscious experience anywhere in science, anywhere, not one that any of these theories has ever explained. And every time I have, and these are my friends, right? No, I've known these people. So what specific conscious experience can your theory explain? What can be the theory of consciousness?
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