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Day: July 14, 2019

The difficulty of subjective experience

As I indicated in the Chalmers post last week, phenomenal consciousness has been on my mind lately.  In the last few days, a couple of my fellow bloggers, Wyrd Smythe and James Cross, have joined in with their own posts.  We've had a lot of interesting discussions.  But it always comes back to the core … Continue reading The difficulty of subjective experience →

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