Archive for May, 2007
The Churchlands
(All references are to Susan Blackmore, Conversations on Consciousness, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005.) Pat says we don’t know that the “hard problem” is really any more hard than many others (p50-52), and “we don’t know how consciousness is produced in brains” (p51). I know that it’s a pseudo-problem, and that consciousness is not produced. [...]
May 25, 2007
Posted in: consciousness, differentials, philosophy 
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Some thoughts on Dennett
Added December 2009: This now needs a health warning. It was written before I knew anything about theory-theory and simulation theory, and though my basic stance has changed little if any, I’d now express some of these ideas quite differently. (Also, some of the internal links might not work.) In Susan Blackmore’s Conversations on Consciousness [...]
May 16, 2007
Posted in: Dennett, consciousness, differentials, information, philosophy 6 Comments