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Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness
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RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness
August 25, 2015 at 8:02 pm
(August 25, 2015 at 7:51 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: If single-cell organisms have a conscious worth studying then let them run their own studies and tell us about it

Sounds fair to me.


(August 25, 2015 at 7:51 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: (didn't know I could be such a chauvinist, did you? I fear I have torn the fabric of society.)

Beware the little single celled people.



(August 25, 2015 at 7:51 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: The proper study of mankind is man, or some such.

What about pet rocks?

It would be nice to have a general field theory of consciousness but we have so little nailed down even about the kind we know from the inside. It only seems reasonable to establish a beach head at human consciousness and then see what progress might be made toward a more general theory from there.
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Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 24, 2015 at 2:52 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Grandizer - August 24, 2015 at 3:44 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 24, 2015 at 6:59 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by brewer - August 24, 2015 at 3:54 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by AFTT47 - August 24, 2015 at 4:21 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Brian37 - August 24, 2015 at 4:03 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by AFTT47 - August 24, 2015 at 4:58 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by abaris - August 24, 2015 at 5:58 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by IATIA - August 28, 2015 at 9:38 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by AFTT47 - August 28, 2015 at 9:56 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by brewer - August 24, 2015 at 4:51 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Brian37 - August 24, 2015 at 4:52 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by AFTT47 - August 24, 2015 at 5:36 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 24, 2015 at 6:57 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Mudhammam - August 24, 2015 at 5:03 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by brewer - August 24, 2015 at 5:09 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 24, 2015 at 7:26 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by brewer - August 24, 2015 at 10:50 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 24, 2015 at 11:17 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 25, 2015 at 10:59 am
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by brewer - August 24, 2015 at 5:22 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by brewer - August 24, 2015 at 6:06 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Mudhammam - August 24, 2015 at 5:50 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by vorlon13 - August 24, 2015 at 5:57 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 24, 2015 at 6:07 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by brewer - August 24, 2015 at 6:25 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Angrboda - August 24, 2015 at 6:59 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Little lunch - August 24, 2015 at 6:54 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Little lunch - August 24, 2015 at 6:57 pm
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RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 24, 2015 at 7:07 pm
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RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 24, 2015 at 9:01 pm
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RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 24, 2015 at 9:23 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by robvalue - August 25, 2015 at 2:46 am
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by bennyboy - August 25, 2015 at 10:03 am
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by bennyboy - August 26, 2015 at 12:35 am
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by brewer - August 25, 2015 at 11:15 am
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 25, 2015 at 11:21 am
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 25, 2015 at 3:16 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 25, 2015 at 5:58 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 25, 2015 at 7:51 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 25, 2015 at 8:02 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 26, 2015 at 11:12 am
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by robvalue - August 25, 2015 at 3:29 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 25, 2015 at 7:21 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by robvalue - August 26, 2015 at 1:51 am
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 26, 2015 at 11:06 am
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 26, 2015 at 11:10 am
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by brewer - August 26, 2015 at 3:31 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 25, 2015 at 4:28 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 25, 2015 at 7:41 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 25, 2015 at 7:59 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 26, 2015 at 9:06 am
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 26, 2015 at 12:29 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 26, 2015 at 11:22 am
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 26, 2015 at 12:51 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 26, 2015 at 1:16 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 26, 2015 at 1:25 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 26, 2015 at 1:50 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 26, 2015 at 3:12 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 26, 2015 at 3:10 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 26, 2015 at 3:07 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 26, 2015 at 3:23 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 26, 2015 at 4:17 pm
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RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Rhondazvous - August 26, 2015 at 7:16 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 26, 2015 at 8:14 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by Whateverist - August 26, 2015 at 9:16 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by brewer - August 26, 2015 at 9:38 pm
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RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by AFTT47 - August 28, 2015 at 10:21 pm
RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness - by bennyboy - August 28, 2015 at 11:46 pm

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