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Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.
How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
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.
My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.
People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
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.
Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.
A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.
