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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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Interreception and Perception of the Internal State of the Body

Sally Kohn: Intero perception is not the sensing of an experience like nausea, say, or even of an emotion like sadness. You're looking at an object in visual space. There's this sense of location. Anything that has a front will also have a back and if you walked around it, you would be given different views of it - none of which may ever repeat exactly. And yet there's this unitary sense of an object in space with a front and back and sides.

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