Hello and welcome to Episode 25, Philip Goff and David Papineau Debate: 'Can Science Explain Consciousness?' (Part I).
In the words of David Chalmers, “The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of experience. When we think and perceive, there is a whir of information-processing, but there is also a subjective aspect. As Nagel has put it, there is something it is like to be a conscious organism. This subjective aspect is experience. When we see, for example, we experience visual sensations: the felt quality of redness, the experience of dark and light, the quality of depth in a visual field. What unites all of these states is that there is something it is like to be in them. All of them are states of experience.”
Debating the question, 'Does physicalism address the hard problem of consciousness?' are Philip Goff and David Papineau.
This week in Part I, Goff and Papineau begin their open debate.
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The file size is large, please be patient whilst the podcast buffers/downloads/debates how the brain produces consciousnessPart I. Open Debate (Part I - 13:25)
Part II. Listener Questions (Start of Part III)