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David Papineau: How Does Consciousness Connect Us To Reality?

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Are You in Danger of Proxying Too Much?

We get to know about what's out there by having the sensory experiences, but not by knowing or thinking. I mean, i thing bengonextern world is a matter of having certain brain states that are typically caused by features the external world. And and some people think that that's not enough for knowledge. So it looks as if we're in danger of being shut from the world in a private world of mental er proxies. All we can really know arear yellow star and o all the other star versions of all the other properties that are here in the werld. That's all we really know, is this mental world,. We take stands for stuff in the world,

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