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1. Introduction 1. Introduction
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2. The Easy Problems and the Hard Problem 2. The Easy Problems and the Hard Problem
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3. Functional Explanation 3. Functional Explanation
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4. Some Case Studies 4. Some Case Studies
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5. The Extra Ingredient 5. The Extra Ingredient
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6. Nonreductive Explanation 6. Nonreductive Explanation
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7. Outline of a Theory of Consciousness 7. Outline of a Theory of Consciousness
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1. The Principle of Structural Coherence 1. The Principle of Structural Coherence
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2. The Principle of Organizational Invariance 2. The Principle of Organizational Invariance
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3. The Double-Aspect Theory of Information 3. The Double-Aspect Theory of Information
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8. Conclusion 8. Conclusion
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Afterword: From “Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness” Afterword: From “Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness”
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1 Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
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Published:October 2010
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Abstract
Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain. All sorts of mental phenomena have yielded to scientific investigation in recent years, but consciousness has stubbornly resisted. This chapter first isolates the truly hard part of the problem of consciousness, separating it from more tractable parts and giving an account of why it is so difficult to explain. It critiques some recent work that uses reductive methods to address consciousness and argues that these methods inevitably fail to come to grips with the hardest part of the problem. Once this failure is recognized, the door to further progress is opened. The second half of the chapter argues that, if we move to a new kind of nonreductive explanation, a naturalistic account of consciousness can be given.
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