This article is a subtle but ultimately powerful argument against what might be called 'folk psychological' theories of consciousness. Basically, it lists ten features commonly assumed to be 'essential' to consciousness - that your experiences are inherently self-representational, for example, or that your experiences entail having a sense of oneself as a subject of experience. But there's no argument that can really be made for any of these, and theories of consciousness intending to prove these end up assuming them. This, of course, leads to the possibility that consciousness is none
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