Tim Bayne - What Is Consciousness?

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Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness has intrigued and baffled philosophers. To begin, we must define and describe consciousness. What to include in a complete definition and description of consciousness?

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Tim Bayne is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia. He is author of The Unity of Consciousness (2010), Thought: A Very Short Introduction (2013), Philosophy of Religion: A Very Short Introduction (2018), and an editor of Delusion and Self-Deception (2008), The Oxford Companion to Consciousness (2009) and Cognitive Phenomenology (2011). He is a Senior Fellow in the CIFAR 'Brain, Mind and Consciousness' program.

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