Exploring Philosophy: Track 4

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  Sebastian Criado-Perez 20 October 2023 11:53PM

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  Just listened to the podcast on consciousness. I was particularly impressed by Carolyn Price's analogy regarding physical objects around the room, and the innate, other-worldly matter that constitutes them (quarks, electrons, molecules...) which physics informs us about. There does indeed seem to be a gap, or at least a vast difference in qualia terms between the two ways of explaining, say, chairs and tables. To me this leads on to my own answer to consciousness, possibly an answer that for many might be too quick, or too simplistic, but for me bypasses many of the struggles philosophers seem to like to get themselves into. It is simply that yes, our brains are carbon sludge, okay, and that doesn't look or feel like our conscious world in any way. But perhaps it is no more difficult to explain than saying that our conscious life simply is what it is like to be inside a brain, we live inside our own brains, not outside them, and we have developed through natural selection a very intricate conscious existence and experience which allows us to get around in, and manipulate, the world we find ourself in.

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  Caroline Gill 6 February 2014 12:49PM

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  Excellent and informative give a real feel for the course work.

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