About me and this site

Introduction

The Hard Problem of Consciousness

Physicalism: Are we really living in a material world?

Epiphenomenalism: So even if consciousness is real, what could it possibly do?

The Turing Test

The Self

Functionalism: Can't we just say that consciousness depends on the higher-level organization of a given system?

Reductionism and Emergence: What kinds of things are there, really?

The All-At-Onceness of Conscious Experience

Time Consciousness and The Specious Present

Realism: To what extent is the world out there the way it seems?

Free Will

Quantum Mechanics

Panpsychism's Aggregation Problem

Neuron Replacement Therapy

Cognition, Qualia, and HOT Theories

Qualia Are Non-Informational (although they can be very informative)

Representations and the Mind: Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Information

Language and Meaning

Daniel Dennett

Beyond the Cartesian Theater: More Better Models and Metaphors

Future Directions

Links to other good places

Glossary

References

Quick Hits: A Whole Mess of Aphorisms