PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: East Los Angeles College, David Chalmers, Neurophenomenology
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When you"re studying consciousness, you"re studying inner life, so it is wise to turn our scientific methods inward. David chalmers and searle we should have a first-person approach. Dennett and the churchlands don"t have to study any special interstates, when we know everything there is to know about behaviour, how neurons fire, etc there is nothing left to explain. Consciousness does not involve studying special inner states. Chalmers and friends claim that we have privileged access to our inner states. Dennett and crew claim that we have access to how it seems to be inside of our heads. Moral development, spiritual development, intellectual inquiry, inner explanation of asc. Husserl: there can never be a meaningful distinction between the external and internal world of experience. No object is untouched by our experience. All experiences is intentional about something, there is something that experience is like. Noematic aspect of experience what should be studied is our immediate experience of experience.
