Nicholas Humphrey on Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
Closer To Truth
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The Illusion of Consciousness
Robert Greene: What is is consciousness and illusion this is a part of the analysis of consciousness in the world there are some people who use that term many people ridiculed him for saying it because the illusion of consciousness seems like it is consciousness certainly our buddy Dan has used illusion in a very sophisticated way. I consider phenomenal consciousness to represent for real how we feel about what's happening to us when we see red or field pain, whatever it may be maybe we're not in error in asserting that it has these qualities. In the case of an impossible triangle we are in error the triangle we see doesn't really have the properties which we think it does but in the case of sensations I think that are but
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