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53: The Case Against Reality | Don Hoffman (classic + updated)

The After On Podcast

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The Multiple Consciousnesses That Unify the Whole Self

In some of the split brain patients, not most, but some, you get someone who's got a naughty left hand. So this kind of suggests that there are multiple consciousnesses that are unifying in the whole sense of self we end up with. Is this also related to the term society of mind in any way? It is. Marvaminsky had a book about the society of mind. And he was a physicalist, so he wasn't taking the point of view that I am that consciousness is fundamental. But nonetheless, your math has suggested that consciousnesses can combine and become entirely new emergent consciousnesses.

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