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The Dharma of Bob 8: A Cosmic View of Our Situation (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)

The Wright Show

CHAPTER

The Subjective Experience Is Not Essential

According to main stream behaviora science, the subjective experience was not essential. We intuitively think that our subjective experience is functionally valuable. So we have a lot of reason to believe that the subjective experience is superfluous. And in any event, if you want to say, no, actually, i think you're experiencing the pain is what led the hand with draw it, we'll find it could be that life is that weird. But that's super weird too, because it means that the scientific paradime is inadequate to encompass am, you know, all of causality and and so on.

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