PHIL 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hornswoggle
16 Feb 2017
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Charlmers facing up to the problem of consciousness. The easy problems of consciousness are those that seem directly susceptible to the standard method of cognitive science e. x. ability to discriminate and react to environmental stimuli e. x. reportability of mental states e. x difference b/w wakeness and sleep. Easy problem: we only have to specific a mechanism that can perform that function (e. x. memory, verbal report) Hard problem: it is beyond the problem of explaining the performance of functions (e. x. why is the performance of these functions accompanied by experience?) Strategy 2: duck the question deny the phenomena. Strategy 3: claim to explain experience but not really explains experience, but details looked over. Strategy 4: explain the structure of experience tells us nothing about why there should be experience in the first place. Strategy 5: isolate the substrate of experience need to know why and how processes rise to experience.
