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#34 — The Light of the Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

i agree that one can more or less throw up one's hands with respect to the hard problem and then just go on to do the work of trying to map the neural correlates of consciousness. So we might start with correlations we find in the familiar human case between, say, certain nural systems and certain kinds of consciousness. Andte would, in principle, predict what kind of consciousness you'd find in what kind of physical system. It doesn't exactly remove the hard problem, because at some point you've got to take that principle as a basic axiom, yet, when there's information ation, there's consciousness. But then you can at least go on toDo science with that

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