(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.
Paul […]
In Susan Blackmore’s Conversations on Consciousness [Bla05], Daniel Dennett says that a philosophical zombie “could cry at sad movies, be thrilled by joyous sunsets, enjoy ice cream. . . and yet not be conscious at all.” (p81)
This might seem a trivial point, but it’s a typical example of Dennett’s thinking, or at least his […]
Here’s a good idea, a philosophical blogroll with valuable added information (even if it doesn’t display quite perfectly in IE6@1024×768): A brood comb power-blogroll.
My paper Mind, Matter, Meaning and Information has been accepted as a poster at Toward a Science of Consciousness 2007! Not yet sure whether I’ll actually get there myself, given my knee problem (currently believed to be “chronic pain syndrome”), but it would certainly be something to look forward to! Better get down to writing […]
