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Has anyone ever claimed that if Daniel Dennett, or a like-minded person, did actually manage to explain consciousness, humans would be diminished?
"Qualia don't even think rationally. Nor do they persist beyond death. They don't cost the body any calories/joules because they don't do any work in the brain or body."
Don't they consume ...
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Assuming philosophical zombies are possible, could one zombie have an inverted spectrum while the rest do not?
The p-zombie thought experiment explores the empiricist claim that consciousness is nothing more than its empirical footprint. To appear conscious is to be conscious. This idea was explored by the ...
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Who, if anyone did say it, was the first to say that because no qualia exist it is meaningless to say what I call "red" could be what you call "blue"?
This response to the inverted spectrum argument is known as the Frege-Schlick view. The name comes from an exchange between Robert Stalnaker and Sydney Shoemaker (here). I doubt whether the ...
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