#96 — The Nature of Consciousness

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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