The illusion of consciousness | Dan Dennett
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 82% confidenceA short official TED talk by a leading philosopher of mind, giving his position clearly as an argument.
What you'll learn
Daniel Dennett uses visual illusions to argue that our intuitions about consciousness mislead us.
Video by TED, played through YouTube's embedded player.
Part of A strange phenomenon we all experience: consciousness
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