
#39 – Keith Frankish on Illusionism about Consciousness
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Is There a Connection Between Consciousness and Brain Operations?
Once you take this phenomenal conception of consciousness seriously, the path is open to a kind of panpsychism. Because i there isn't any conceptual connection between the performance of certain function, cean psychological functions, and consciousness, then why do you need a psychology at all to have it? Maybe everything has got this interior aspect to it. maybe tables and and trees and andand atoms have this private inner world,. once you conceptialize it in that way, i idon't, i can't see any argument fo for forfor ruling that out.
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