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Unread 09-08-2014, 08:05 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Sam Harris
"I don’t actually argue that consciousness is “a reality” beyond the grasp of science. I just think that it is conceptually irreducible — that is, I don’t think we can fully understand it in terms of unconscious information processing. Consciousness is “subjective”— not in the pejorative sense of being unscientific, biased or merely personal, but in the sense that it is intrinsically first-person, experiential and qualitative"
Not a dualist
Consciousness irreducible
Can't derive any notion of reality from experience.(?)
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