Consciousness
Consciousness Each of us, right now, is having a unique conscious experience. But the ever-expanding reach of natural science suggests that everything in our world is ultimately physical. Nothing is…
Specifikacia Consciousness
Consciousness
Each of us, right now, is having a unique conscious experience. But the ever-expanding reach of natural science suggests that everything in our world is ultimately physical. Nothing is more basic to our lives as thinking beings and nothing, it seems, is better known to us.
The basic philosophical tools of the trade are introduced, including thought experiments featuring Mary the color-deprived super scientist and fearsome philosophical "zombies". The challenge of fitting consciousness into our modern scientific worldview, of taking the subjective "feel" of conscious experience and showing that it is just neural activity in the brain, is among the most intriguing explanatory problems of our times.In this book, Josh Weisberg presents the range of contemporary responses to the philosophical problem of consciousness. The book then systematically considers the space of