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25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Zombie Hypothesis and the Conscious Mind

The right view is what philosophers call a limited wisdom that there is no such thing as consciousness the zombie is in fact making a mistake. There's just a very strong introspective mechanism that makes us think we have these special properties that's illusionism now most people find it impossible to believe that consciousness isn't illusion in that way on the other hand the view does have the advantage of predicting that you would find it impossibleto believe if it's a good enough mechanism that makes you focus on this.

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