In this episode of the Waking Up 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 Waking Up podcast at
samharris.org/support.
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In this episode of the Waking Up 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 Waking Up podcast at
samharris.org/support.
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