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What is consciousness?
Gerald Woerlee
An anesthesiologist’s careful cut between consciousness, wakefulness, and mind — why consciousness may remain even when higher mental activity goes quiet.
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BlogThe true, hidden origin of the so-called Hard Problem of Consciousness
Bernardo Kastrup
An extract from Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell that locates the Hard Problem in a quiet category error — mistaking the map of quantities for the territory of qualities.
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VideoMaterialism is Complete Nonsense
Alex O’Connor · Bernardo Kastrup
Within Reason #128 — Alex O’Connor presses Bernardo Kastrup on analytic idealism, why materialism fails, and what it means for personhood and the self.
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Federico Faggin
The inventor of the microprocessor on idealism from both a technical and a deeply personal angle — consciousness, free will, and what a body is for.
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