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What Is Consciousness? Philip Goff On The Nature of Reality & The Science of Mind

The Rich Roll Podcast

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What Is It Like to Be You?

It feels circular, like you're defining consciousness as someone who is experiencing consciousness. Nagle said in his famous paper, what's it like to be a bat from the 70s? He said, something's conscious if there's something that it's like to be it. So for some people that works, I don't know how well it translates actually. But most people on both sides of the debate tend to think there is a notion we can get onto and work with it.

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