Andy Clark - What is Consciousness?

Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Watch more interviews on the mysteries of consciousness: https://shorturl.at/fimAU Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness has intrigued and baffled philosophers. To begin, we must define and describe consciousness. What to include in a complete definition and description of consciousness? Get free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Andy Clark is a British philosopher who is Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex. Show your support of the show with Closer To Truth merch: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.