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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 Dualism of Consciousness

When it comes to consciousness we seem to have something different that needs explaining. The standard kinds of explanation say that you get out of physics derived sciences just ultimately won't add up to an explanation of subjective experience. It always leaves open this further question why is all that sophisticated processing accompanied by consciousness by a subjective experience? We need another fundamental property right there as well.

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