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#113 — Consciousness and the Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Hard Problem

i agree with you that we could be misled about how unified consciousness is. The thing that's irreducible to me is this difference between there being something that it's like and not, you know, the lights are on or they're not. But just the question is always, is there something that is like to be that bit of information processing or that bit of matter? And that is always the cash value of a claim for consciousness. David chalmers has been on the podcast, and i've spoken about it with other people, but perhaps you want to introduce us to the hard problem briefly. It distinguishes itself from the easy problem in neure science. Any solution to the

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