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Author of The End of Faith, The Moral Landscape, Waking Up, and other bestselling books published in over 20 languages. Host of the Waking Up podcast.

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    Sam Harris‏Verified account @SamHarrisOrg Jan 9

    My recent podcast with @anilkseth is now available: "Consciousness and the Self" https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/113-consciousness-and-the-self …pic.twitter.com/BgBSCEvTXs

    8:34 AM - 9 Jan 2018
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      2. Vivek Shende‏ @vivekshende Jan 17
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @anilkseth

        Illuminating 3hrs, worth every second! Thank you both! This also led me to TED talk by @anilkseth which I cannot recommend highly enoughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyu7v7nWzfo …

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      2. Navin‏ @vain Jan 9
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @anilkseth

        I was trying to work, you know

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. ⓗⓤⓝⓚ🅔‏ @hunkEmusic Jan 9
        Replying to @vain @SamHarrisOrg @anilkseth

        Half work half listen, like me.

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      2. Chase Roberts‏ @chsrbrts Jan 9
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @anilkseth

        The podcast was very interesting. I'll likely need to listen to it a 2nd time in order to fully digest it haha.

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. Derek‏ @dasutcliffe Jan 9
        Replying to @chsrbrts @SamHarrisOrg @anilkseth

        Yea, this one requires lots of information processing lol

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      2. elizabeth‏ @elizpingree Jan 9
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @anilkseth

        3 hours!!! Yahhhhh!!!!!! Just finished @TheGreatCourses "Philosophy of the Mind" by Patrick Grim.

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      3. Robert Steiner  🇨🇦 🇺🇸‏ @MrSpocksApostle Jan 9
        Replying to @elizpingree @SamHarrisOrg and

        Sam's really been cranking these out lately. I can't keep up!

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      1. Tahiti‏ @Tahiti67 Jan 9
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @anilkseth

        Great guest and ample timing to dig deep. Will need another listen to look up New words and correctly formulate new questions. A podcast that demands full attention. Almost felt high afterwards. Thanks guys , super!

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      1. elizabeth‏ @elizpingree Jan 9
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @anilkseth

        I watched Ex Machina two times in a row the first time I saw it. Anil, I love what you said about the Turning test: "As much as it's a test of the capabilities of the system...it's also a test of the human. What kind of criteria are they using to make that sort of judgment."

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      1. Anil Seth‏ @anilkseth Jan 10
        Replying to @kira_seppa @SamHarrisOrg

        FWIW there’s an episode of #InfiniteMonkeyCage @BBCRadio4 w/ me and Bostrom, also of course @ProfBrianCox & @robinince - all about singularities and simulation argumentshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zb4d8 …

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      2. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 Jan 9
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @anilkseth

        You might find Michael Graziano's arguments about conscious interesting:https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-make-consciousness-into-an-engineering-problem …

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      3.  🦇 Liggi  🦇‏ @Liggi Jan 9
        Replying to @Intrinsic29 @SamHarrisOrg @anilkseth

        I struggle to see how this solves the hard problem. What about qualia? Can I design a conscious machine that experiences “blue” as what I call “red”? How about an entirely new colour qualia?

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4.  🦇 Liggi  🦇‏ @Liggi Jan 9
        Replying to @Liggi @Intrinsic29 and

        Can I redesign my brain so that all the qualia I associate with colours are replaced by entirely new colour qualia? How does that map onto any internal model? The qualia still comes from seemingly nowhere.

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      5. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 Jan 9
        Replying to @Liggi @SamHarrisOrg @anilkseth

        I'm not sure I follow. "Red" and "blue" are just internal models. Your vision detects certain properties in the world and arbitrarily describes them as colors but those colors are just conceptual constructs, as is the model of what you "see."

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      6.  🦇 Liggi  🦇‏ @Liggi Jan 9
        Replying to @Intrinsic29 @SamHarrisOrg @anilkseth

        What defines the rule that translates an “internal model” into a qualia (ie. blueness)? Or do you just not think there is any qualia like Dennett does? That my mind just fools me into thinking I have qualia when I don’t?

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      7.  🦇 Liggi  🦇‏ @Liggi Jan 9
        Replying to @Liggi @Intrinsic29 and

        Here’s a better way: what are the rules for how my brain “describes” a particular thing, like a colour? Why is blue blue?

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      8. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 Jan 9
        Replying to @Liggi @SamHarrisOrg @anilkseth

        No one knows how brains work perfectly but we do know that your eyes are just detecting properties in the world and you are imagining colors based on those properties. Eyes aren't windows to the world; they're more like data detectors.

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      9.  🦇 Liggi  🦇‏ @Liggi Jan 9
        Replying to @Intrinsic29 @SamHarrisOrg @anilkseth

        Sure, but the hard problem is how the data becomes a subjective experience. This theory seems to say essentially that your brain fools itself into thinking it has an internal dimension... fair enough, but from a first-person perspective, we have qualia, and...

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