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I want to reemphasize the miraculous existence of any form of consciousness by paraphrasing Ludwig Wittgenstein: Not how consciousness is, is mystical, but that it is.
That you are intimately acquainted with the way life feels is a brute fact about the world that cries out for an explanation.
Christof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Therefore, and this is critical, strict physicalism cannot be established by showing that mental states and brain states are interdependent on, causally related, or constantly conjoined with each other in an embodied person. Physicalism needs identity to make its case, and if something is true, or possibly true of a mental substance, property, or e
... See moreJ. P. Moreland • The Soul
What is, and should be, controversial is the proposal that our theory of the calculations that the brain carries out match up, in some fairly direct way, with our common-sense psychological explanation in terms of beliefs and desires and the like – a viewpoint that has been widely held ever since early computational models of the mind took hold in
... See moreNick Chater • Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain
