Why you don't really exist | Sam Harris, Roger Penrose, Sophie Scott

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Sam Harris, Roger Penrose, and Sophie Scott discuss consciousness, altered states, split brain patients, and the illusion of the Self. If you really look for it, can you ever find the Self? With a free trial, you can watch the full debate NOW at https://iai.tv/video/the-divided-self-sam-harris-roger-penrose?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=description Many have sought to divide the self into separate parts. From Aristotle's distinction between the rational and irrational self to Freud's separation of the conscious and unconscious mind, from Kahneman's fast and slow self to McGilchrist's selves of the left and right brain. But critics argue it makes no sense to see the self as divided. From Descartes to Sartre, many philosophers have concluded that to be conscious is to be conscious of something and there can be no further self hiding within consciousness. After all, if there are two aspects of the self does it not require a third to oversee or combine them? Meanwhile, neuroscience has been unable to identify a self at all let alone multiple selves. Should we give up the idea of distinct selves as simply incoherent? Should we conclude that a single self is necessary to account for conscious experience and to enable responsibility for action? Or are multiple selves a better way to explain the wildly divergent thoughts and contradictory behaviours that we can sometimes exhibit? #consciousness #philosophy #neuroscience #psychology #science #buddhism Neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, Nobel Prize winner Roger Penrose, and director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Sophie Scott discuss whether the self is divided. The Institute of Art and Ideas features videos and articles from cutting edge thinkers discussing the ideas that are shaping the world, from metaphysics to string theory, technology to democracy, aesthetics to genetics. Subscribe today! https://iai.tv/subscribe?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=https://iai.tv/video/the-divided-self-sam-harris-roger-penrose 00:00 Consciousness is the one thing in this universe that can't be an illusion 00:36 Sam Harris on the illusion of the Self 03:51 Roger Penrose on the corpus callosotomy procedure and dual consciousness 06:57 Dreams and memories in the labyrinth of consciousness 08:55 Sophie Scott on neuroscience, cell renewal, and being social primates 12:41 Where is the theatre of experience located? 16:05 Split brain patients have two distinct consciousnesses 17:48 Is the Self continuous across time or caught in a constant cycle of death and rebirth? 19:08 The curious case of Clive Wearing 22:05 Memory situates the Self For debates and talks: https://iai.tv For articles: https://iai.tv/articles For courses: https://iai.tv/iai-academy/courses