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Consciousness is Not the Same Thing as the Mind

Presenter:

Sam Harris, Roger Penrose, Sophie Scott

Time:

24:03

Summary

Transcript

There's no one in that room there who knows what they're going to think next until the thought itself arises. Everybody, think of a film. There's hundreds, if not 1000s, of movies you know. Think of one.


Now, whatever you thought of, it is an absolute mystery as to why you thought of that. I mean, even even if you have a story about why you thought of it, the truth is, there were there were dozens or hundreds of films you could have thought of, but you didn't. And to say you could have thought of them, it's a kind of illusion in that if we returned your brain to the state it was in a moment ago, you would have produced exactly the same film memory as you did, and you do that a trillion times in a row.

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