
Michael Strevens on explanation and modern scientific knowledge
Thing in itself
Consciousness
With consciousness there are these things that insist on the heart problem or move towards a new form of panpsychism and stuff like that. What do you, what do you think about those problems specifically? Well, I'm a bit of a, I suppose I would classify myself as an amateur when that comes to consciousness in a certain sense. On the one hand we see the same kinds of encouraging signs i was just talking about that are reductionist looks for us. When you have a difference in conscious experience this. So basically you can find a difference in what's going on in the in the physical material of the brain. The philosophical case against reduction doesn't turn on on on denying that there
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