Consciousness Poses The Most Baffling Problems In

Consciousness Poses The Most Baffling Problems In The Science Of The Mind. There Is Nothing That We Know More Intimately Than Conscious Experience, But There Is Nothing That Is Harder To Explain.

Because The Idea Of Zombies Seems To Make Sense, And Seems To, In A Certain Sense, Be Possible, I Think One Can Use That To Argue Against The Thesis That Everything Is Purely Physical. Now Many People, I Think, Agree That The Idea Of Zombies Are Conceivable, Including People Who Want To Be Physicalists.

Sense Data Are Much More Controversial Than Qualia, Because They Are Associated With A Controversial Theory Of Perception - That One Perceives The World By Perceiving One's Sense-data, Or Something Like That.

I Had The Idea That It Would Be Wonderful To Be A Physicist Or A Mathematician Maybe 500 Years Ago Around The Time Of Newton When There Were Really Fundamental Things Just Lying Around To Be Discovered.

My Interests Started About In Science And In Mathematics, I Always Thought I Was Going To Be A Mathematician.