Consciousness and the Problem of Other Minds
Activitas Nervosa Superior September 1, 2010 John O’Dea 3 citations
Abstract Because a conception of consciousness based on direct self-awareness does not generalise easily to other cases, a fully general theory of consciousness under this conception may not be possible, as Ned Block (2003) has pointed out. In this paper, i discuss the possibility of doing away with the underlying idea, common in philosophical and scientific circles, that consciousness is a...