21 min listen
#96 — The Nature of Consciousness
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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Sep 10, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
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. You can support the Making Sense podcast at samharris.org/support.
Released:
Sep 10, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
#1 — Drugs And The Meaning Of Life: The full text of this essay can be read here: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/drugs-and-the-meaning-of-life by Making Sense with Sam Harris