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David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
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The Meta Problem of Consciousness
I recently wrote an article all about this kind of issue called the meta problem of consciousness. The hard problem is how does the brain give you consciousness? And then if you've got attraction to sort of simple views, desert landscapes, and so on,. Then you can go all the way with what people call illusionism and say in fact, consciousness itself is not real. What is real is just these introspective models we have that tell us that we're conscious. So the view is very simple, very attractive, very powerful. But it has to say that deep down consciousness is notreal. We're not actually experiencing right now. It looks like it's just contradicting a fundamental datum
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