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255. David Chalmers — Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

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Is There a Mysterian Mystery That Could Never Be Solved?

There are some douts consciousness, but ot, why is there something instead of nothing? I don't know. How could we ever answer that one? That's very deep. Whatd what answer to that question could there possibly be? But i'm maybe i'm not, i'm not imaginative enough. Im problem of consciousness is a deep one. It was a book i read recently athen ouare a psychologist, mark holmes, for he says, actaly emotion is the key to consciousness. Once we explain feeling in the sense of emotion, that will explain everything. Siiim anoptimist, like philosophical problems to be solved eventually. Bu, you know, is

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