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Please Help Me Understand Consciousness

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Please Help Me Understand Consciousness
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RE: Please Help Me Understand Consciousness
March 25, 2014 at 2:08 am (This post was last modified: March 25, 2014 at 2:09 am by Mudhammam.)
(March 8, 2014 at 2:58 pm)rasetsu Wrote: A couple of google terms you might find helpful in organizing your search are "David Chalmers" and "the hard problem" (of consciousness).

So in the last couple weeks I've read Consciousness Explained by Dan Dennett and The Mind's I by Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter. They were great reads. Now I'm reading Chalmers' The Conscious Mind and my head is in knots. Some of the philosophy he delves into at the beginning, such as Logical Supervenience and Necessary and Conceptual Truths, is just... well... fucking difficult!
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Please Help Me Understand Consciousness - by Mudhammam - March 6, 2014 at 5:44 am
RE: Please Help Me Understand Consciousness - by Cinjin - March 8, 2014 at 3:24 am
RE: Please Help Me Understand Consciousness - by Mudhammam - March 25, 2014 at 2:08 am
RE: Please Help Me Understand Consciousness - by fr0d0 - March 8, 2014 at 3:19 pm

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