Charlotte Blease
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Yeah.
Yeah, so I don't know if philosophers can shed more light.
They very often ask more questions or invite more questions, but certainly philosophers have been thinking about consciousness or what it is to have a mind for thousands of years.
In the 17th century, John Locke,
talked about consciousness as the perception of what passes in one's mind.
So this idea of awareness, but added to that the subjectivity associated with it.
So it's not just the feeling or the taste of something, but it's the awareness that one is experiencing this thing.
So David Chalmers, as you've said, described this as a particularly...
difficult problem.
Why is it that some physical substrate of some sort has to have this sensory experience, if you like, or awareness on top of that?
What is the relationship between the two?
Other philosophers have sort of taken a deflationary perspective and said, people like Patricia and Paul Churchland
American philosophers have said that it's not really a problem.
It's probably more an artifact of how our minds work, that we think of it as some sort of deeply mysterious problem and that this will go by the wayside, a bit like the...
idea that there had to be a vital force associated with life.
What was this added extra spirit component?
And that we might actually have the same attitude.
It's a bit, it's like, we actually have to do the mechanistic work of understanding the configuration of matter that gives rise to this particular
But philosophers have come up with a whole variety of theories about the relationship between the mind and body.
No.
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