What is consciousness? This pervasive question perplexes philosophers even today. The most commonly held and accepted philosophy of mind is a materialist perspective. A materialist perspective allows the mind to exist as physical neurons. But, how can we account for consciousness? Is consciousness an illusion, all of our senses working together with our mind? If not, what is it, then?
Conscious has been examined by philosophers ad infinitum. “The fact that an organism has conscious experience at all means, basically, that there is something it is like to be that organism,” – (Nagel 1974). How can we account for this notion of “being” something else? It’s not an immaterial substance, as Decartes once thought.
Some philosophers do away with this problem by claiming consciousness does not exist. How does a mind possibly possess the ability to concieve other minds if conciousness does not exist?
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