Consciousness

Two excellent episodes of Standford's Philosophy Talk show with John Perry & Ken Taylor:

Human are conscious, billiard balls are not, and computers aren't either. But all three are just collections of molecules, aren't they? What is consciousness, and does it go beyond what science can explain? Join John, Ken, and their guest, Joseph Levine, author of Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness, as they probe the limits of scientific accounts of consciousness.

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Is the conscious mind just the brain or something more? Can science explain consciousness? How does Ken know that John is a conscious being and not just an automaton programmed to act like a conscious being? Or is John just an automaton? With guest David Chalmers, author of The Conscious Mind.

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