Consciousness
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Introduction WELCOME PERPLEXITY If you think you have a solution to the problem of consciousness, you haven’t understood the pro ...
IntRoDUCtIon is taken as more or less equivalent to ‘responsive’ or ‘awake’. ‘Conscious’ is also used to mean the equivalent of ...
Introduction THE ORGANISATION OF THE BOOK This book is divided into six relatively independent sections containing three chapter ...
IntRoDUCtIon PUTTING IN THE PRACTICE Consciousness is a topic like no other. Right now, this very min- ute, you are probably c ...
Introduction the arm of her chair so as to bring back to herself some consciousness of her own existence. She was next overcome ...
IntRoDUCtIon of testing one against another. But underlying all of this is the first-person view, which is what it’s all about. ...
Introduction of my consciousness, is quite foggy, that as far as it concerns only myself I rest in it untroubled, sometimes even ...
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SECTION The problem one ...
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CHAPTER WHAT IS THE WORLD MADE OF? The problem of consciousness is related to some of the oldest questions in phi- losophy: What ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem FIGURE 1.1 need it any more, because we know there is no such thing. The same is true of the ‘caloric ...
Chapter One What’s the problem? the pencil at arm’s length, you see the pencil from your own unique perspective. No one else can ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem listen to, smell, and taste what consciousness is, as well as to think and argue about it intellectua ...
Chapter One What’s the problem? CONSCIOUSNESS IN PHILOSOPHY Philosophers over the millennia have struggled with versions of the ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem they work by magic or they must be using some kind of energy or matter. In this case, they are also ph ...
Chapter One What’s the problem? things, giving something non-material properties which logically and gram- matically apply only ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem The twentieth century saw two notable attempts to make dualism work. In the 1970s, the philosopher of ...
Chapter One What’s the problem? At the other extreme are materialists who argue that there is only matter (or physicalists, who ...
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