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Is there a good place on the internet to read and discuss philosophical stuff like consciousness? Also, I'd take any book suggestions, I just finished consciou
by tayo42 6y ago
Is there a good place on the internet to read and discuss philosophical stuff like consciousness?
Also, I'd take any book suggestions, I just finished consciousness explained and currently reading on consciousness. It's hard to find good books
- xyzzy21 6y agoWe do NOT understand our own consciousness so it's idiotic to project what we don't even understand to inanimate objects. This is superstition and anti-rationality. The right answer can always be "we don't know" but this is deciding "nope, we can just make shit up because it feels good!" Basically taking civilization backwards by hundreds if not thousands of years!
- epilys 6y agoI'm reading the Bicameral Mind book by Jaynes and regardless of the "mind-body problem solution" it posits it has a good overview on the problem of consciousness at the beginning of the book
- skhm 6y agoPermutation City by Greg Egan - it's fiction, but honestly it will do as good a job as any textbook on the subject to force you to really think about your beliefs about the nature of consciousness.