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Are we hallucinating ourselves? | Anil Seth

Philosophy For Our Times

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Can Science Explain Consciousness?

Can science explain consciousness? On the face of it, it seems that it might not be able to. David charmers famously talks about the hard problem of consciousness. He says we have no good explanation of why and how it so arises. This seems to be a very, very difficult problem indeed. But there are all sorts of ways of thinking that are on the menu. One of them is panpsychism. The idea that conscious experiences th at there really is a redness to red as we experience it, bu that's somehow an illusion.

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