Let’s now tackle head-on the issue of “qualia” – those subjective conscious experiences such as the redness of an apple or the pain of a headache, sometimes referred to as “raw feel”. The undeniable reality of qualia, coupled with their “ineffability”, has been taken to be a fundamental problem for materialist explanations of consciousness such… Continue reading Qualia – maybe not such a hard problem after all?
Tag: phenomenology
Phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view
The Model Theory of Consciousness
OK, let’s jump straight in. Inside each person’s head is a model of everything outside. This model of the universe “runs” in the physical brain, in the same way that a software program runs on a computer’s hardware. Now here’s the crucial bit: obviously, the model contains within itself a model of the person to… Continue reading The Model Theory of Consciousness
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