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Consciousness
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Consciousness is being aware of something internal to one's self, or of states or objects in one's external environment. It has been the topic of extensive explanations, analyses, and debate among phi
Mirror test subjected on a common octopus
Mirror test subjected on a common octopus
Schema of the neural processes underlying consciousness, from Christof Koch
Schema of the neural processes underlying consciousness, from Christof Koch
A Buddhist monk meditating
A Buddhist monk meditating
Thomas Nagel argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking "the bat's point of view", it would still be imp
Thomas Nagel argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking "the bat's point of view", it would still be impossible "to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat". (Townsend's big-eared bat pictured.)
Hard problem of consciousness
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In philosophy of mind, the hard problem of consciousness is to explain how and why organisms have qualia, phenomenal consciousness, or subjective experience. It is contrasted with the "easy problems"
Consciousness
…A-consciousness can in principle be understood in mechanistic terms, but that understanding P-consciousness is much more challenging: he calls this the hard problem of consciousness. Some philosophers believe that Block's two types of consciousness are not the end of the story. William Lycan, for example, argued in his book…
David Chalmers on stage for an Alan Turing Year event at De La Salle University, Manila, 27 March 2012
David Chalmers on stage for an Alan Turing Year event at De La Salle University, Manila, 27 March 2012
The hard problem is often illustrated by appealing to the logical possibility of inverted visible spectra. If there is no logical contradiction in sup
The hard problem is often illustrated by appealing to the logical possibility of inverted visible spectra. If there is no logical contradiction in supposing that one's colour vision could be inverted, it follows that mechanistic explanations of visual processing do not determine facts about what it is like to see colours.