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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Contents of Conscious Perception

When we are conscious, then we're conscious of something. And I think this is what the large majority of consciousness research empirically focuses on. So at any one time, our conscious scene will have a very multi-modal character. There'll be sound, sight, experiences of touch, maybe if you're sitting down or holding something. And then a whole range of more self-related experiences too of body ownership of all the signals coming from deep inside the body,. which are more relevant to self. We've just dealt with a level of consciousness. Talk to me about the contents of consciousness.

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