Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Emerson and I discuss illusionism about consciousness, the idea that there is no inner "what it is like" of experience but instead merely the illusion of felt qualities of experience.

Full interview with Emerson: youtube.com/watch?v=MUBuBkGr9uY

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