Science and experience constrain and modify each other as in a dance. Francisco Varela (1996, p. 347) Plenty of puzzles about consciousness remain—unknowns on which further empirical work will plausibly shed light. What kinds of actual or hypothetical entities are conscious, and how similar are their experiences to our own? Ethologists and the average petContinue reading “Mystery or Marvel: Why is there a link between physical and conscious events? (Part 3)”
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Mystery or Marvel: Why is there a link between physical and conscious events? (Part 2)
(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)”
Vertiginous Questions 