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This is Episode 6.

Slaying the Dragon Within Us.

This episode was taken from a 2002 lecture recorded by TV Ontario.

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So I'm going to tell you today about a way of looking at the world that I think is substantially

different from the way that most people look at the world.

The way I want to tell you about looking at the world today is I think more inclusive

than a standard sort of materialist view.

The standard scientific view of the world, of course, is that it's made up of familiar

objects and that the world is in essence a material place.

But there's some very potent limitations of that viewpoint, despite the fact that it's

given us tremendous power.

And the limitations are essentially as follows.

The essential materialist view can't tell us anything about consciousness, which is

probably the primary fact of experience.

Neuroscientists in recent years, mostly in the last decade, have been trying to crack

the problem of consciousness and they have absolutely made no progress.

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