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Anil Seth: Is Consciousness a Controlled Hallucination?

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Why Do People Think Dualism Is Attractive?

In the philosophical literature, the main argument against dualism appeals to what's called causal closure. This is the thesis that everything that happens in the brain has a physical cause within the brain. And so if that's true, it looks like putative, non physical consciousness has nothing left to do,. no role to play in determining behaviour. But i see, the more i taught in oura, scientist, and and i men, i didn't get any different view reading your book, unless looking at some associated fapers. I must not shore we do know enough about the actual mechanisms of the brain to rule out ju tonote, to support that causal close of thesis. Or anyway,

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