This note calls attention to the fact that efficient causes – the sort of cause that changes something or makes something happen – can play no constit-utive role in the immediate cognitively conscious relation between cognitive subject and a cognitive object. It argues that: (1) it is a necessary condition for there being an efficient causal relation that it alter its relata; and (2) it is a...
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...