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#39 – Keith Frankish on Illusionism about Consciousness
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Is Consciousness Just a Physical State of the Brain?
keith, you and i have discussed a great paper by jonathan birch at the london school of economics. I was wondering if i could offer a bit of a reply on on behalf of realists who do try to study animal consciousness. He has what he calls the facilitation hypothesis that it might be linked to certain things like multimodal learning and certain behaviors. And we know that's the case in us, and maybe it's true in animals. There are also various things we can do, like be guided somewhat by structural similarity to the human mind. So all this is just to say, whether we're resting that much on birch's framework or not, it
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