I am just about to finish Being You and had a rising frustration which I did not quite where to take ... so hope am not bothering anyone by raising it here.
Seth's hope that his account of consciousness will dissolve the "Hard Problem of Consciousness" into the "Real Problem of Consciousness" did not at all work for me. He frequently uses terms like 'causation' and 'correlation' to describe the relationship between physical states of bodies and brains, on the one hand, and mental phenomena, on the other. The more I think about it, that just has to be wrong.
I am just about to finish Being You and had a rising frustration which I did not quite where to take ... so hope am not bothering anyone by raising it here.
Seth's hope that his account of consciousness will dissolve the "Hard Problem of Consciousness" into the "Real Problem of Consciousness" did not at all work for me. He frequently uses terms like 'causation' and 'correlation' to describe the relationship between physical states of bodies and brains, on the one hand, and mental phenomena, on the other. The more I think about it, that just has to be wrong.
Please bare with me a moment to for an analogy.
If I imagine... (read 597 more words →)