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The Grand Illusion of Consciousness

Here’s Dr. Susan Blackmore giving a terrific presentation on why she thinks consciousness is a "grand illusion". Well worth your time.
 
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=6958873142520847424&hl=en&fs=true  
 
Now I want to read more about it…

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2 responses to “The Grand Illusion of Consciousness”

  1. Wai Avatar
    Wai

    thanks for loading this. very interesting. have you seen the ‘What the bleep do we know?" series (http://www.whatthebleep.com/)? they’re also quite interesting.

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  2. Geoff Avatar
    Geoff

    Wai, I haven’t seen the "Whatthebleep…" film because, by all accounts, it’s a load of quantum flapdoodle codswallop. See http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/04/what_the_bleep_.html for example. As I’ve said before, I like to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brain falls out… Cheers!

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