I Don't Deny the Existence of Consciousness

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I don't deny the existence of consciousness. Of course, consciousness exists. It isn't what people, what most people think it is. And ihave said many times, i do grant that strasson expresses quitea vividlya widespread conviction about what conscious is. Might people, in strassen in particular, be wrong about this? That is the issue. But then further down, so he's quoting strassen again. One of the strangest things that the deniers say is that although it seems that there is conscious experience, there isn't really any conscious experience. The seeming is, in fact, an illusion.

It’s the topic voted on by our beloved Patreon patrons, panpsychism! David and Tamler delve into the resurgent debate over whether consciousness is the fundamental stuff that makes up the universe. We hoped we might be entering Miyazaki land - river spirits, benevolent radishes, a universal mind. But is this just the same old philosophy of mind debate with different words? Are there any stakes to this debate or is it purely terminological? Plus – we answer some last-minute questions from listeners on dissertations, Ukraine, pseudoscience, and the music from "The Shield."