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#159 — Conscious

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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What Is Consciousness?

There may be three different levels at which people think consciousness could be appearing under this umbrella term panpsychism. One is at the level of information processing, which David Chalmers feels that it makes the most sense for it to emerge. And then some people postulate that it is a fundamental feature of matter itself - whether it's process ing information or not. If consciousness is present in everything, then we're talking about such a minimul level of experience. It's not something we could ever even try to imagine. There's there's no memory.

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