Article Splitting the hard problem of consciousness + Are there multiple selves?

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Splitting the hard problem of consciousness in two
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/...ess-in-two

KEY POINTS: The hard problem of consciousness has framed consciousness studies for a generation. This blog explains what the hard problem is and why it needs to be split into two very different problems. One problem is the scientific problem, which we call the neurocognitive engineering problem. The second problem is the philosophical problem, which we call the enlightenment gap... (MORE - details, minimal or non-obtrusive ads)

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Penrose vs Harris vs Scott: Are there multiple selves?
https://iai.tv/articles/penrose-vs-harri..._auid=2020

INTRO: We can feel and even act like different people in different situations and at different times. Is a single self enough to hold together our messy, often contradictory collection of experiences and drives? At HowTheLightGetsIn 2024 in London, Sam Harris, Roger Penrose and Sophie Scott met to debate The Divided Self, hosted by Jack Symes. The bestselling philosopher, quantum physicist and leading neuroscientist investigated whether we need to update our model of the self, and how to do it... (MORE - details, minimal or non-obtrusive ads)

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I'm pretty sure if I met an 18 year old version of myself I'd have very little in common with him. So what binds us together over the years as one self-same being? It's the continuity of my consciousness thru all those changes and experiences over time that unites it all as one self. It is not a self as in anyone I am objectively, like a person or a man. It is the totally subjective and traitless absence as the blank receptacle for my lived life. I therefore agree with Harris to an extent that there is no self that we can objectively point to and describe. There is only the unity and emptiness of conscious thinking experience running like a golden thread thru every episode of my life, playing this role and that role and learning all I have thru the transient and successive assuming of all these objective personas..