Alex O’Connor: Is Consciousness Fundamental? - YouTube
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*Imagine someone claimed that thinking the right thoughts, in the right order, could conjure a tennis ball out of thin air.* You'd call it absurd. But claim the reverse—that arranging matter the right way conjures conscious experience—and it passes as settled science. Alex O'Connor joins Robert Lawrence Kuhn to explain why he shifted from debating God's existence to confront the ultimate "hard problem": consciousness. Together, they explore why neuroscience struggles to explain subjective experience, why consciousness resists scientific prediction, and why language itself struggles to…
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