What Would It “Be Like” to Solve the “Hard Problem.” Cognition, Consciousness, and Qualia-Zombies
NeuroQuantology September 5, 2007 Greg P. Hodes
David Chalmers argues that consciousness -authentic, first-person, conscious consciousness -cannot be reduced to brain events or to any physical event, and that efforts to find a workable mind-body identity theory are, therefore, doomed in principle. But for Chalmers and non-reductionist in general consciousness consists exclusively, or at least paradigmatically, of phenomenal or...