Tuesday, 22 November 2016

The Challenge of Consciousness

The Challenge of Consciousness

Riccardo Manzotti in conversation with Tim Parks: For most people “consciousness” will have various meanings and include awareness, self-awareness, thinking in language. But for philosophers and neuroscientists the crucial meaning is that of feeling something, having a feeling you might say, or an experience. It’s all very problematic. The truth is that we do not know what consciousness is. That’s why we’re talking about it as a problem.

Continue reading...

No comments:

Post a Comment