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The Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, Annaka Harris

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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What Is Panpsychism?

If panpsychism is correct, we would never expect a microphone to have any kind of experience like ours. And in fact, I think our experience of being a self in all of the complicated thoughts and things we can think about ... that would be a very, very rare form of consciousness. So if there's actually something it's like to be an atom or an individual cell or some collection of cells or the material that make up this table in front of us... none of that would exist.

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