(Please read the first post in this series if you haven’t already.) Is the “hard problem of consciousness” a mystery? Before plunging in, mind/brain-first, let’s take stock of three things we do know about consciousness, barring the quibbles of the extreme (and extremely annoying) skeptic: One: We know that consciousness and its palette of diverseContinue reading “Mystery or Marvel: Why is there a link between physical and conscious events? (Part 2)”
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Mystery or Marvel: Why is there a link between physical and conscious events? (Part 1)
In the sixth grade, I was staring at a classmate who was babbling about some inane topic, when I briefly wondered: “Is he alive?” By “alive,” I did not mean that he satisfied the functional criteria of a life form. That seemed to follow straightforwardly from his behavior. I meant: did he have experiences, likeContinue reading “Mystery or Marvel: Why is there a link between physical and conscious events? (Part 1)”
Vertiginous Questions 