What is consciousness? | Bernardo Kastrup, Tim Crane, and Susan Blackmore

Tim Crane, Bernardo Kastrup and Susan Blackmore debate the nature of consciousness.

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Despite the advances in neuroscience and the rapidly extending capacity of computers, we still have no adequate theory of consciousness. No account of how the brain is able to create experience. And no account of how the material stuff of the brain can be responsible for thought.

Should we conclude that consciousness cannot be explained in terms of the physical? But if so what is the alternative? Or is it just a matter of time, and one day an AI machine will miraculously find itself experiencing the world, and its mere components will have soul?

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Tim Crane is Head of the Philosophy Department at Central European University. He specialises in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of psychology and metaphysics.

Susan Jane Blackmore is a writer, lecturer, sceptic, broadcaster, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. Her fields of research include memetics, parapsychology, and consciousness.

Bernardo Kastrup is a philosopher and computer scientist. His philosophical work has spearheaded metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially menta. Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories, where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered.

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