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@c_gajewski @punishmenthurts
[edited for typo]Call me sceptical, but I have two issues to get over first.
1) We are still struggling to understand what consciousness means/is, so anything written/thought about it is very much in the realms of a *postulates*; and,
2) The discourse on the subject is Euro-centric and leaves other major civilisations aside.
Disclosure: I know nothing about the subject of your masto conversation. But it doesn’t indicate a lack of interest.
If I’m budding in and it’s bothersome, just tell me off… nicely please.
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“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”*…
Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote a 75 page book in his twenties, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, that he thought solved philosophy, then stepped away from the field. Years later, he came back and spent the rest of his life dismantling and reconstructing many of his own ideas (as reflected in his second book, Philosophical Investigations).
Marco Giancotti has created a new way to read the famously-difficult Tractatus…
Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote most of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while fighting in World War I. When he was done, he believed this book made philosophy obsolete, so he found a job as an elementary school teacher. While he would later change his mind on its finality, the Tractatus remains one of the most important works of philosophy to this day.
The Tractatus has an unusual shape: it is not a sequence of chapters but a tree of statements and sub-statements and sub-sub-statements. At its root, it is made of only seven brief statements. In other words, it is not a linear read but a branching set of rabbit-holes.
This page is an attempt at making that tree maximally traversable and interactive. Use the tools available to explore, make cross-sections, annotate, fold and sculpt the book the way you prefer. Save any set of pins as a named thread in the control panel, or bookmark the page in your browser. Export the result as a Markdown or PDF file to keep, or share a special link that reopens your annotated version of the book in someone else’s browser...
A new way into Wittgenstein: “The Foldable Tractatus,” from @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.
Read (Wittgenstein’s mentor, then later, antagonist) Bertrand Russell‘s introduction to the Tractatus on Project Gutenberg.
* Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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As we fumble with philosophy, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to Theodor Adorno; he was born on this date in 1903. A philosopher, cultural, and music critic, he was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, he authored numerous works—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment, Minima Moralia, and Negative Dialectics—that strongly influenced the European New Left.
A classically-trained musician (who studied composition with Alban Berg), Adorno devoted his final (and posthumously-published) book, Aesthetic Theory, which he had planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, to arguing against the “fatal separation” of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and to exploding the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.
Adorno critiqued all forms of positivism as responsible for technocracy and disenchantment and sought to produce a theory that both rejected positivism and avoided reinstating traditional metaphysics. He has been criticized for over-applying the term “positivism,” especially in his interpretations of Wittgenstein (and Karl Popper) as positivist.
#Adorno #AlbanBerg #BertrandRussell #culture #FrankfurtSchool #history #logic #LudwigWittgenstein #PhilosophicalInvestigations #philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #philosophyOfMind #TheodorAdorno #TractatusLogicoPhilosophicus #Wittgenstein -
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”*…
Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote a 75 page book in his twenties, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, that he thought solved philosophy, then stepped away from the field. Years later, he came back and spent the rest of his life dismantling and reconstructing many of his own ideas (as reflected in his second book, Philosophical Investigations).
Marco Giancotti has created a new way to read the famously-difficult Tractatus…
Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote most of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while fighting in World War I. When he was done, he believed this book made philosophy obsolete, so he found a job as an elementary school teacher. While he would later change his mind on its finality, the Tractatus remains one of the most important works of philosophy to this day.
The Tractatus has an unusual shape: it is not a sequence of chapters but a tree of statements and sub-statements and sub-sub-statements. At its root, it is made of only seven brief statements. In other words, it is not a linear read but a branching set of rabbit-holes.
This page is an attempt at making that tree maximally traversable and interactive. Use the tools available to explore, make cross-sections, annotate, fold and sculpt the book the way you prefer. Save any set of pins as a named thread in the control panel, or bookmark the page in your browser. Export the result as a Markdown or PDF file to keep, or share a special link that reopens your annotated version of the book in someone else’s browser...
A new way into Wittgenstein: “The Foldable Tractatus,” from @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.
Read (Wittgenstein’s mentor, then later, antagonist) Bertrand Russell‘s introduction to the Tractatus on Project Gutenberg.
* Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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As we fumble with philosophy, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to Theodor Adorno; he was born on this date in 1903. A philosopher, cultural, and music critic, he was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, he authored numerous works—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment, Minima Moralia, and Negative Dialectics—that strongly influenced the European New Left.
A classically-trained musician (who studied composition with Alban Berg), Adorno devoted his final (and posthumously-published) book, Aesthetic Theory, which he had planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, to arguing against the “fatal separation” of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and to exploding the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.
Adorno critiqued all forms of positivism as responsible for technocracy and disenchantment and sought to produce a theory that both rejected positivism and avoided reinstating traditional metaphysics. He has been criticized for over-applying the term “positivism,” especially in his interpretations of Wittgenstein (and Karl Popper) as positivist.
#Adorno #AlbanBerg #BertrandRussell #culture #FrankfurtSchool #history #logic #LudwigWittgenstein #PhilosophicalInvestigations #philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #philosophyOfMind #TheodorAdorno #TractatusLogicoPhilosophicus #Wittgenstein -
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”*…
Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote a 75 page book in his twenties, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, that he thought solved philosophy, then stepped away from the field. Years later, he came back and spent the rest of his life dismantling and reconstructing many of his own ideas (as reflected in his second book, Philosophical Investigations).
Marco Giancotti has created a new way to read the famously-difficult Tractatus…
Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote most of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while fighting in World War I. When he was done, he believed this book made philosophy obsolete, so he found a job as an elementary school teacher. While he would later change his mind on its finality, the Tractatus remains one of the most important works of philosophy to this day.
The Tractatus has an unusual shape: it is not a sequence of chapters but a tree of statements and sub-statements and sub-sub-statements. At its root, it is made of only seven brief statements. In other words, it is not a linear read but a branching set of rabbit-holes.
This page is an attempt at making that tree maximally traversable and interactive. Use the tools available to explore, make cross-sections, annotate, fold and sculpt the book the way you prefer. Save any set of pins as a named thread in the control panel, or bookmark the page in your browser. Export the result as a Markdown or PDF file to keep, or share a special link that reopens your annotated version of the book in someone else’s browser...
A new way into Wittgenstein: “The Foldable Tractatus,” from @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.
Read (Wittgenstein’s mentor, then later, antagonist) Bertrand Russell‘s introduction to the Tractatus on Project Gutenberg.
* Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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As we fumble with philosophy, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to Theodor Adorno; he was born on this date in 1903. A philosopher, cultural, and music critic, he was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, he authored numerous works—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment, Minima Moralia, and Negative Dialectics—that strongly influenced the European New Left.
A classically-trained musician (who studied composition with Alban Berg), Adorno devoted his final (and posthumously-published) book, Aesthetic Theory, which he had planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, to arguing against the “fatal separation” of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and to exploding the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.
Adorno critiqued all forms of positivism as responsible for technocracy and disenchantment and sought to produce a theory that both rejected positivism and avoided reinstating traditional metaphysics. He has been criticized for over-applying the term “positivism,” especially in his interpretations of Wittgenstein (and Karl Popper) as positivist.
#Adorno #AlbanBerg #BertrandRussell #culture #FrankfurtSchool #history #logic #LudwigWittgenstein #PhilosophicalInvestigations #philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #philosophyOfMind #TheodorAdorno #TractatusLogicoPhilosophicus #Wittgenstein -
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”*…
Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote a 75 page book in his twenties, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, that he thought solved philosophy, then stepped away from the field. Years later, he came back and spent the rest of his life dismantling and reconstructing many of his own ideas (as reflected in his second book, Philosophical Investigations).
Marco Giancotti has created a new way to read the famously-difficult Tractatus…
Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote most of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while fighting in World War I. When he was done, he believed this book made philosophy obsolete, so he found a job as an elementary school teacher. While he would later change his mind on its finality, the Tractatus remains one of the most important works of philosophy to this day.
The Tractatus has an unusual shape: it is not a sequence of chapters but a tree of statements and sub-statements and sub-sub-statements. At its root, it is made of only seven brief statements. In other words, it is not a linear read but a branching set of rabbit-holes.
This page is an attempt at making that tree maximally traversable and interactive. Use the tools available to explore, make cross-sections, annotate, fold and sculpt the book the way you prefer. Save any set of pins as a named thread in the control panel, or bookmark the page in your browser. Export the result as a Markdown or PDF file to keep, or share a special link that reopens your annotated version of the book in someone else’s browser...
A new way into Wittgenstein: “The Foldable Tractatus,” from @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.
Read (Wittgenstein’s mentor, then later, antagonist) Bertrand Russell‘s introduction to the Tractatus on Project Gutenberg.
* Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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As we fumble with philosophy, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to Theodor Adorno; he was born on this date in 1903. A philosopher, cultural, and music critic, he was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, he authored numerous works—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment, Minima Moralia, and Negative Dialectics—that strongly influenced the European New Left.
A classically-trained musician (who studied composition with Alban Berg), Adorno devoted his final (and posthumously-published) book, Aesthetic Theory, which he had planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, to arguing against the “fatal separation” of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and to exploding the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.
Adorno critiqued all forms of positivism as responsible for technocracy and disenchantment and sought to produce a theory that both rejected positivism and avoided reinstating traditional metaphysics. He has been criticized for over-applying the term “positivism,” especially in his interpretations of Wittgenstein (and Karl Popper) as positivist.
#Adorno #AlbanBerg #BertrandRussell #culture #FrankfurtSchool #history #logic #LudwigWittgenstein #PhilosophicalInvestigations #philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #philosophyOfMind #TheodorAdorno #TractatusLogicoPhilosophicus #Wittgenstein -
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”*…
Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote a 75 page book in his twenties, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, that he thought solved philosophy, then stepped away from the field. Years later, he came back and spent the rest of his life dismantling and reconstructing many of his own ideas (as reflected in his second book, Philosophical Investigations).
Marco Giancotti has created a new way to read the famously-difficult Tractatus…
Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote most of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while fighting in World War I. When he was done, he believed this book made philosophy obsolete, so he found a job as an elementary school teacher. While he would later change his mind on its finality, the Tractatus remains one of the most important works of philosophy to this day.
The Tractatus has an unusual shape: it is not a sequence of chapters but a tree of statements and sub-statements and sub-sub-statements. At its root, it is made of only seven brief statements. In other words, it is not a linear read but a branching set of rabbit-holes.
This page is an attempt at making that tree maximally traversable and interactive. Use the tools available to explore, make cross-sections, annotate, fold and sculpt the book the way you prefer. Save any set of pins as a named thread in the control panel, or bookmark the page in your browser. Export the result as a Markdown or PDF file to keep, or share a special link that reopens your annotated version of the book in someone else’s browser...
A new way into Wittgenstein: “The Foldable Tractatus,” from @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.
Read (Wittgenstein’s mentor, then later, antagonist) Bertrand Russell‘s introduction to the Tractatus on Project Gutenberg.
* Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
###
As we fumble with philosophy, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to Theodor Adorno; he was born on this date in 1903. A philosopher, cultural, and music critic, he was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, he authored numerous works—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment, Minima Moralia, and Negative Dialectics—that strongly influenced the European New Left.
A classically-trained musician (who studied composition with Alban Berg), Adorno devoted his final (and posthumously-published) book, Aesthetic Theory, which he had planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, to arguing against the “fatal separation” of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and to exploding the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.
Adorno critiqued all forms of positivism as responsible for technocracy and disenchantment and sought to produce a theory that both rejected positivism and avoided reinstating traditional metaphysics. He has been criticized for over-applying the term “positivism,” especially in his interpretations of Wittgenstein (and Karl Popper) as positivist.
#Adorno #AlbanBerg #BertrandRussell #culture #FrankfurtSchool #history #logic #LudwigWittgenstein #PhilosophicalInvestigations #philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #philosophyOfMind #TheodorAdorno #TractatusLogicoPhilosophicus #Wittgenstein -
🧩🤖 What is #Mind? – Gottfried Vosgerau Discusses Natural and Artificial Consciousness
The question of what #Consciousness actually is ranks among the oldest and, at the same time, most difficult problems in #Philosophy.
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/06/10/was-ist-geist/
📺 https://youtu.be/l_cOUOtL3wY
#PhilosophyOfMind #GottfriedVosgerau #Zoomposium #ArtificialConsciousness #Self-Representation #CognitiveScience #Agency #EmbodiedCognition #PredictiveProcessing #AI #MindAndBrain
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🧩🤖 What is #Mind? – Gottfried Vosgerau Discusses Natural and Artificial Consciousness
The question of what #Consciousness actually is ranks among the oldest and, at the same time, most difficult problems in #Philosophy.
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/06/10/was-ist-geist/
📺 https://youtu.be/l_cOUOtL3wY
#PhilosophyOfMind #GottfriedVosgerau #Zoomposium #ArtificialConsciousness #Self-Representation #CognitiveScience #Agency #EmbodiedCognition #PredictiveProcessing #AI #MindAndBrain
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🧩🤖 What is #Mind? – Gottfried Vosgerau Discusses Natural and Artificial Consciousness
The question of what #Consciousness actually is ranks among the oldest and, at the same time, most difficult problems in #Philosophy.
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/06/10/was-ist-geist/
📺 https://youtu.be/l_cOUOtL3wY
#PhilosophyOfMind #GottfriedVosgerau #Zoomposium #ArtificialConsciousness #Self-Representation #CognitiveScience #Agency #EmbodiedCognition #PredictiveProcessing #AI #MindAndBrain
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🧩🤖 What is #Mind? – Gottfried Vosgerau Discusses Natural and Artificial Consciousness
The question of what #Consciousness actually is ranks among the oldest and, at the same time, most difficult problems in #Philosophy.
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/06/10/was-ist-geist/
📺 https://youtu.be/l_cOUOtL3wY
#PhilosophyOfMind #GottfriedVosgerau #Zoomposium #ArtificialConsciousness #Self-Representation #CognitiveScience #Agency #EmbodiedCognition #PredictiveProcessing #AI #MindAndBrain
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🧩🤖 What is #Mind? – Gottfried Vosgerau Discusses Natural and Artificial Consciousness
The question of what #Consciousness actually is ranks among the oldest and, at the same time, most difficult problems in #Philosophy.
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/06/10/was-ist-geist/
📺 https://youtu.be/l_cOUOtL3wY
#PhilosophyOfMind #GottfriedVosgerau #Zoomposium #ArtificialConsciousness #Self-Representation #CognitiveScience #Agency #EmbodiedCognition #PredictiveProcessing #AI #MindAndBrain
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An alien ocean answers grief with a body instead of a sentence. A dream that never learns to negate. A mystic reaching God by subtracting every word. Solaris, Freudian dream-work, and apophatic theology land on the same collapse of propositional thought, from opposite directions.
https://medium.com/materia-philosophy-of-consciousness/solaris-and-the-empty-god-532733d1842a
#Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #Psychoanalysis #Solaris #Mysticism #ApophaticTheology #ScienceFiction #Zen
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A machine learning model can flag suicide risk years before the person living that risk becomes aware of it. The algorithm knows before you do.
If the information that determines your trajectory exists before your consciousness registers it, what is consciousness doing when it believes it is choosing?
New on Materia.
#Consciousness #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #FreeWill #Determinism #BigData #Science
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🌀 #Panpsychism – #Whitehead’s Influence in the 20th Century
📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/09/27/metaphysik-des-bewusstseins/
🎥 Interview: https://youtu.be/hoqiI_TElv4
#Zoomposium #GodehardBrüntrup #Metaphysics #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #PhenomenalConsciousness #NearDeathExperience #NDE #NearDeathResearch #SemanticContent #MindBodyProblem #LiberalNaturalism #ProcessPhilosophy #ExplanatoryGap #Neuroskepticism #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Self #Physicalism #CognitiveNeuroscience #AlfredWhitehead
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The Hidden Trap of the Mind: How to Escape Illusion and Find True Freedom
https://youtu.be/BN1dvdlxix0
#SpiritualAwakening #MindTrap #BreakFree #Consciousness #IllusionOfSelf #TrueFreedom #AwakeningJourney #SelfRealization #OvercomeSuffering #LetGoOfEgo #HigherAwareness #PhilosophyOfMind #SpiritualGrowth #InnerPeace #EscapingIllusion #Mindfulness #WisdomPath #EnlightenmentNow #DetachAndAwaken #FreedomFromMind -
#TimothyOConnor - What’s the #Stuff of #Mind and #Brain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3WyaWP06Gk
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Neuroscience #Metaphysics #Dualism #Soul #Plato #Causality #Experience #Qulia #Biology #Physicalism #Epiphenomenon #Epiphenomenon #BrainState #MentalState #PropertyDualism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#PeterTse - How #FreeWill Probes #Mind and #Consciousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj5Z-vJP5fc
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfFreeWill #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Information #Neuroscience #Neuron #Neurons #Synapse #Synapses #NeuralCode #Determinism #Physics #Biology #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#JohnSearle - Why #Philosophy of #Science?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hozWAB6EmJ8
#PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Metaphysics #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Language #Society #SocialScience #SocialSciences #Causation #Physics #BackwardsCausation #Multiverse #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#HenryStapp - How is the #Cosmos Constructed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sTo4pxEvPY
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #Metaphysics #ClassicalPhysics #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Physics #Events #Mental #Physical #Mind #PhilosophyOfMind #Causation #Causality #AnthropicPrinciple #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#PeterTse - Are #Brain and #Mind the Same Thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_rGt5dtePA
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Intentionality #Neuroscience #IdentityTheory #Neurons #PatternRecognition #PatternDetection #Functionalism #SynapticWeighting #Synapses #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#PeterTse - How #FreeWill Probes #Mind and #Consciousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRw8YSr7s5Q&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Qualia #Attention #Tracking #AttentionalTracking #IntentionalStates #Volition #Experience #ExogenousAttention #EndogenousAttention #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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Do you have a citation for that first quotation? It would be very useful.
(Franz Brentano wrote about this at length, but I didn't know Clemens did.)
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#BernardCarr - #Physics of #Consciousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aMaCpH-tWI&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Neurophysiology #Neuroscience #Emergence #Metaphysics #FilterTheory #Reductionism #Epiphenomenon #Epiphenomena #BiologicalNaturalism #Naturalism #1stPerson #Qualia #Mind #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#JuliaMossbridge - Why is #Consciousness so Baffling?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVlE-zSRdWQ&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Science #Neuroscience #Psychology Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Metaphysics #1stPerson #Qualia #Feeling #Feelings #Searle #JohnSearle #Causation #BackwardCausation #BackwardsCausation #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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Hello everyone! To be efficient here, I'm going to list some more tags in hopes of attracting in the right #academics and #scientists from the #Fediverse -
#scicomm #philosophy #philmind
#climatejustice
#animalrights #mind #brain
#vegan #vegans #vegetarian
#animalrights #nonhumanrights
#research #philosophyofmind
#ecology #complexsystems
#ecosystems #climateemergency