Cast List: #96 — The Nature of Consciousness

#96 — The Nature of Consciousness

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Episode: #96 — The Nature of Consciousness
Website: Making Sense with Sam Harris
Feed URL: http://wakingup.libsyn.com/rss
Duration: 00:50:13
Published: 2017-09-11 00:16

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Thomas Metzinger about the scientific and experiential understanding of consciousness. They also talk about the significance of WWII for the history of ideas, the role of intuition in science, the ethics of building conscious AI, the self as an hallucination, how we identify with our thoughts, attention as the root of the feeling of self, the place of Eastern philosophy in Western science, and the limitations of secular humanism.

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#96 — The Nature of Consciousness

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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