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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Presence of Pure Consciousness

It seems to me conceivable that there's a phenomenal state which is characterized by the absence of specific contents. I'm somehow skeptical of people's reports of these states and this gets back to what we were talking about earlier that we tend to somehow overestimate our ability to have insight into our phenomenal content at any particular time. What would the computational vehicles of such a state be in terms of predictive perception? Is it the absence of predictions or is it the prediction of that nothing is causing my sensory input at that particular time? I don't know. I have to think about that some more.

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