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282. Anil Seth on the Hard Problem of Consciousness, the Self, and the Essence of Volition

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Do We Know Other People Are Sensitive and Conscious?

How do we know other people are sentient and conscious they're not? Jzombes a, would something like the copernican principle apply to yourself a work as an explanation? That is, i'm not special. I experience this with thousands of other people, and that kind of up dates my priors. It's possible to imagine a world where maybe that's not true, but it's so unlikely. Andt were all used to external diversity, now, wite, different skin colours, shapes, sizes. But this, this inner diversity, i think, is, by its nature, you know, i cannot have your experience.

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