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#39 – Keith Frankish on Illusionism about Consciousness

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I Don't Think Consciousness Exists.

A lot of people draw a natural, intuitive connection between consciousness and moral patienthood. So how do you think about the problem of animal consciousness in its relationship to moral catient? We can hypothesise that it's connected with certain brain processes. And we can look to see if those brain processes are there in other creatures as well. But we don't these are just hypotheses; we've never actually had to test them.

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