‘Conscious experience is the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious…why does it exist? what does it do? how could it possibly arise from neural processes in the brain? These questions are among the most intriguing in all of science.’
‘Conscious: the subjective, inner life of the mind.’
‘Over the past several years an [...]
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David Chalmers- ‘The Puzzle of Conscious Experience’
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David Chalmer’s ‘Consciousness and its place in nature’
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5.10 Type-E Dualism (Epiphenomenalism)
This is the view that ‘phenomenal properties’ are different from physical properties. That phenomenal properties can have no effect on the physical. In other words, there are two properties, the physical and the mental.
‘Physical states cause phenomenal states, but not vice versa’. So the psychophysical laws run only from phenomenal to physical, [...]
