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Episode #181 ... What if consciousness is an illusion?

Philosophize This!

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The Illusion of Consciousness

Daniel Dennett says that the most parsimonious explanation for a mystery contradicts everything else we know, is that it's an illusion. Panpsychist might say that we don't yet know enough about the human brain to write off the possibility that consciousness exists at some level underneath. Illusionists want to consider that maybe there's something about the nature of the illusion that we're experiencing that's not fully explainable by studying the physical properties of the brain.

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