Consciousness
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem premises. We simply fail to follow the instructions – we fail to allow Mary to know everything physic ...
Some would conclude that this thought experiment, like many others, depends so precariously on linguistic hair-splitting – what ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem But if you think that consciousness has effects or functions, you will disagree with Chalmers. For exa ...
Chapter Two What is it like to be.. .? and simply cannot imagine it being identical to our culture, perhaps that does tell you s ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem the physical body and is an inessential optional extra to behaviour (this is epi- phenomenalism or co ...
Chapter Two What is it like to be.. .? phenomenon would be. (This is reminiscent of one of the main objections to the thought ex ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem physical organisation of the brain. On this view, we will understand consciousness only when we have a ...
Chapter Two What is it like to be.. .? correlates of consciousness (NCC), in the hope that when we can explain the NCC in causal ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem Miller goes on to split Chalmers’s original hard problem into two: the hard exis- tence problem (why ...
correlates of pain. [. . .] There is no reason why we shouldn’t be able to refer to this ‘what-it’s-likeness’ using concepts whi ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem problem: life itself ’ (1996a, p. 4). ‘Chalmers’s “Hard Problem” is a theorist’s illusion [. . .] no ...
Chapter Two What is it like to be.. .? Approaches consciousness through the problem of other minds. Exploring the obstacles to p ...
CHAPTER Most of the films we love watching are peppered with continuity errors great and small, but how many of us ever noticed ...
But the distinction between something being non-existent and being other than it seems is tricky, because once you say something ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem up, as it were, the space of the real pitcher, the real wash basin filled with water (Hugo von Hoffma ...
Chapter Three The grand illusion PRACTICE 3.1 HOW MUCH AM I SEEING NOW? As many times as you can, every day, ask yourself ‘How m ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem as a kind of picture-viewing); this led naturally to conceiving of pictures inside the eye and the hea ...
Chapter Three The grand illusion us in difficulty once we start trying to apply them to understanding how the brain contributes ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem Why don’t we notice the gaps? One answer might be that, in some sense, the brain fills in the missing ...
Chapter Three The grand illusion While you did that all the other portraits would just be face-shaped blobs. Now you turn to the ...
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