Can consciousness be explained?
Can consciousness be explained?
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A sudden disappearance of the personal self
‘In one moment, everything that I had ever taken to be my personal self completely disappeared,’ she later recalled. ‘It was just gone. As I waited for the…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #consciousness #experience
An inner experiencer can't explain unity
You cannot explain the unity of experience by simply positing an inner, unified experiencer. That simply begs the question: how is unity of experience…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #unity #experience #consciousness #argument
Back pain is ontologically subjective
Kant argued that all the things we think of as being objects in the world are only objects in our heads. And, as Searle would say in more modern philosophical…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #ontology #pain #subjective-experience #consciousness
Being Nobody: losing the self in ecstasy
We also sometimes live life under the third scenario, as Nobodies. ‘Human beings have stalked this planet for 100,000 years, [and] we have from time to time…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #consciousness #drugs #music
Biological naturalism
Suppose an animal gets a shortage of water in its system. The shortage of water will cause “saline imbalances” in the system, because the ratio of salt to…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #biological-naturalism #consciousness #brain #mind-body-problem
Biological versus functionalist views of consciousness
Without going into the mathematical details here, Maguire shows that if we do in fact have completely integrated experiences, this form of information…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #biological-naturalism #functionalism #consciousness #computation