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#318 - Physics & Philosophy

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

"There's nothing in physics which would allow you to predict not just from small to large, but no matter how big it is that any physical behavior would have associated with it a feel or a subjective state," he says. "I on the other hand, contrast that you could predict all kinds of behavior and I don't even know what a grip on it would look like." He adds: "The hard problem of consciousness is something that's quite central to my interest,. But I'm going to leave it to the side because I have so much else I want to talk to you about"

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