Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content #96 - The Nature of Consciousness
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Sep 10, 2017 AI Snips
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Childhood Discovery Of The Holocaust
- Thomas Metzinger found a hidden photo book, The Yellow Star, at age ten and it ended his childhood instantly.
- He describes seeing bulldozers pushing piles of corpses and learning the scale of the Holocaust firsthand.
Consciousness Is A Bundle Of Problems
- Metzinger argues consciousness is a bundle of distinct problems, not one single mystery.
- He predicts isolating the global neural correlate of consciousness by 2050 as a first empirical step.
The Hard Problem Is Past Its Prime
- Metzinger dismisses the hard problem as outdated and driven by weak intuitions about conceivability.
- He says the field has moved beyond Chalmers' zombie thought experiments toward empirical progress.