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24.02.22. Epiphinominal 2.jtm

Consciousness does not cause your actions

Feelings do not do anything

Helen Yetter-Chappell
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Consciousness does not require a self

The self is a prediction of the brain

James Cooke
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23 10 16.Quantum mechanics and the puzzle of subjectivity

Quantum mechanics and the puzzle of subjectivity

Solving Husserl's Crisis of the Sciences

Steven French
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250923.Consciousness ITT

No current theory of consciousness is scientific

Challenging the "pseudoscience" objection

Erik Hoel
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Free will is an invention

Nietzsche, free will, and guilt

Alexandre Fillon
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Brain vs Heart: a false dichotomy

Are your emotions valid?

Thomas Dixon
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Consciousness is the collapse of the wave function

Quantum mechanics and the organic light of consciousness

Stuart Hameroff
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Consciousness Cannot Have Evolved

The sooner we acknowledge it, the sooner we’ll solve the hard problem of consciousness

Bernardo Kastrup
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Consciousness does not require a self

The self is a prediction of the brain

James Cooke
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Why There Is No Self: A Buddhist View for the West

Rid yourself of the myths that you live by.

Jay Garfield
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Who Is Rachael? Blade Runner and Personal Identity

Does what you remember determine who you are now?

Helen Beebee
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Consciousness may not require a brain

Are plants conscious?

Annaka Harris
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Bias doesn't always undermine truth

When biased reasoning doesn’t lead us astray

Katherine Puddifoot
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Nietzsche and the myth of free will

What your belief about free will says about you

Donovan Miyasaki
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David Nutt: entropy explains consciousness

We don't need mysticism to explain psychedelic experience

David Nutt
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Anil Seth: The hallucination of consciousness

Is consciousness in the brain?

Anil Seth
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Brain noise doesn't explain consciousness

A psychedelic experience isn’t akin to TV static

Bernardo Kastrup
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Is rationality a fiction?

Rationality and reason are overrated

Charlie Barnett
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23 05 15 Mind is no tmachine2.dc

The absurdity of mind as machine

History dissolves the mind-body problem

David Bentley Hart
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23 04 20 Consciousness begins with feelings4.dc

Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking

A new theory of embodied consciousness

Antonio Damasio
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23 04 18 There is no such thing as weak will.dc

There is no such thing as weak will

Socrates on values, rationality and procrastination

Rebecca Roache
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Why Steven Pinker is wrong about rationality

Rory Sutherland on the failures of rationality and science

Rory Sutherland
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23 04 06 Nietzsche ignorance sets us free

Nietzsche: ignorance sets us free

We should be grateful for uncertainty

Bernard Reginster
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23 03 06 when are intuitions a good guide to reality.dc

When are intuitions a good guide to reality?

In defence of common sense

Nevin Climenhaga
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