![]() ![]() All of these are my own private experiences and they have a quality I cannot convey to anyone else.”… ![]() I can enjoy the warmth and familiarity of my own room, and wonder whether that scratching noise is the cat trying to get in. I can hear the sound of the river and the buzzing of a fly. Looking up from my work I can see trees, fields, and a bridge. “On the one hand, there are our own experiences. ![]() The trouble is that in ordinary human experience there seem to be two entirely different kinds of thing, with no obvious way to bring them together.” “This problem is a modern incarnation of the famous mind–body problem with which philosophers have struggled for more than 2,000 years. ![]() Consciousness is at once the most obvious and the most difficult thing we can investigate … How on earth can the electrical firing of millions of tiny brain cells produce this - my private, subjective, conscious experience?”… “What is consciousness? This may sound like a simple question but it is not. ![]()
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