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beat on July 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: What If Consciousness Comes First?

Just because you don't like the reality the consciousness is subjective rather than objective does not make consciousness objective.

Many people much smarter than you and I have been exploring this problem since forever, with both ancient thought experiments and modern science. They've not found what you assume is there.

naasking on July 24, 2019 | [–]

These "thought experiments" don't prove anything. At best, they simply identify which camp you intuitively belong in, dualist or non-dualist.

For a preliminary scientific theory of consciousness, see: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00...

codeulike on July 24, 2019 | [–]

There are plenty of philosophers in this area that disagree with Chalmers

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