Alex O'Connor
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
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And one by one, each of the neuroscientists said some really interesting things that
But I felt just hadn't answered the question.
Anil actually said at one point, you know, we can kind of put this question of like consciousness like to the side or on the shelf or something like that.
And we can talk about like the brain activity that's going on when the conscious experience happens.
And there was someone else who was talking about how when people have like hallucinations.
It's like, although to them they feel as real as actual sight, different brain activity is happening when they think they see something versus when they don't.
That's really interesting.
That's great.
This is all really interesting stuff about neuroscience.
But it got around to me and I turned to the question and I was like, I think the answer is no.
And I think what we've just heard has kind of proved that.
Because what you're doing is you're talking about brain chemistry.
You're talking about neurons.
You're talking about...
the neural correlates of consciousness you're not talking about consciousness itself and I remember sitting there thinking like this is sort of quite strange to me
Because a lot of the sort of running threads throughout this one, I said, but like, what about the nature of what consciousness actually is?
What about the explanation of like why we're conscious?
There's sometimes this feeling of like, well, that's not really a legitimate question.
It's enough to just describe the neural correlates.
It's enough to just describe the brain activity.
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