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The Conscious Mind

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What’s it about?

Why does a brain's information processing feel like something from the inside? Chalmers argues consciousness is a fundamental feature of reality, not a byproduct of computation.

You’ll learn

  • The hard problem vs. easy problems of consciousness
  • Why philosophical zombies are conceivable
  • Consciousness as a fundamental property of the universe
  • How causal organization, not brain matter, creates experience