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#159 — Conscious

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There Consciousness?

There's just endless amount of behaviors that we witness that we think, yes, that that is absolute evidence that that person is conscious. We all meet people in dreams, presumably they are not conscious, or don't even exist, and they seem to be conscious. And then conversely, there are people who we know, due to nerological injury, are still conscious, but can give no sign of that. It feels like every time i make a decision or plan almost anything, consciousness is the thing that’s driving it. I wanted to start there in terms of challenging our intuitions and trying to break through some of them. The science actually, you knowas you know,

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