Ten Problems of Consciousness

By Michael Tye,

Book cover of Ten Problems of Consciousness: A Representational Theory of the Phenomenal Mind

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Can neurophysiology ever reveal to us what it is like to smell a skunk or to experience pain? In what does the feeling of happiness consist? How is it that changes in the white and gray matter composing our brains generate subjective sensations and feelings? These are several of the…

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1 author picked Ten Problems of Consciousness as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

What if consciousness is the story our minds tell us about the world? Books are written in black ink but can tell stories about red roses. So maybe neurons in your brain can also tell you stories about red roses–maybe that’s what’s happening when you see a red rose.

Michael Tye explores this idea in an incredibly fruitful way, and the theory that he helped to develop, representationalism, is a juggernaut in the contemporary philosophy of perception. 

From Neil's list on the conscious mind.

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