RE: Good read on consciousness
January 9, 2021 at 11:17 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2021 at 11:20 pm by GrandizerII.)
Given illusionism, the issue I care most about is how does this "inaccurate report of an illusory consciousness process" (which is pretty much phenomenological, no matter how illusionists want to spin it as something else) come about via physical processes happening in the CNS? The hard problem is still there.
But the other difficulty with illusionism is that it doesn't appear to be coherent. I'm all for counterintuitive views, but this isn't just simply a violation of intuition.
You're all familiar by now with what Galen Strawson had to say about this, but if not, here's a link to his well-known article on this topic (note, behind paywall, though):
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/13...s-deniers/
But the other difficulty with illusionism is that it doesn't appear to be coherent. I'm all for counterintuitive views, but this isn't just simply a violation of intuition.
You're all familiar by now with what Galen Strawson had to say about this, but if not, here's a link to his well-known article on this topic (note, behind paywall, though):
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/13...s-deniers/
