Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

You can read my essay on consciousness or you can read this article - the point being made is exactly the same (and certainly not unique to either of us). "Experience is not over and above the processes that happen in the brain, as Chalmers assumed upfront. The dualism between a first-person description of experience and a third-person (or scientific) account of the same is a normal perspectival difference: the same brain phenomenon as experienced by that same brain itself, or by another. Experience for both - not evidence of two different kinds of reality."

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