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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