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#159 — Conscious

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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What Is Consciousness Doing?

Philosophy has been that consciousness is a so called epi phenomenon, which is to say, its its something that is stands outside the stream of phenomena that are causal. Anything we're conscious of may take your writing process and decision about where to start - anything you can point to in that process,. no matter how deliberative it seems, is preceded by events in your brain of which you are not conscious ofwhich whichattis no conscious corellate.

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