
Noam Chomsky: Chomsky on Consciousness
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What Is Consciousness?
I think introspection is as fallible as perception. It's not got any wonderful magical powers to acquaintance with a special realm of consciousness. I think it gives us a confused idea of consciousness. We're aware of the taste of the coffee via our awareness of these taste qualia, which are a company. These qualities are really strange ones. They exist only for the observing self in the theater. No one else can detect them, and they're ineffable. You can't describe them.
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