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Tim Crane on Mind and Body

Philosophy Bites

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I Don't Understand How a TV Works

I think it's a philosophical problem, philosophical conundrum that we're confused about what it is that we're trying to understand rather than ignorance. For anyone who knows anything about the brain and psychology at all, it's not surprising that there's a bit of your brain that lights up when you talk... So this is not a discovery that we should be surprised at. The fundamental puzzle is how it can give rise to anything like conscious experience. Some neuroscientists have said thatconscious experience or correlate with some particular kind of neural activity which has been correlated with this phenomenon. That presupposes that consciousness is one thing but I'm sure that we know that we aren't just trying to clarify the

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