The ‘Hard’ Problem of Consciousness Is Continually Reproduced and Made Harder by All Attempts to Solve It  

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Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory, Culture & Society vol. 25 no. 2 (Mar. 2008), page 51-86.
Topik: Chomsky ¦ dancer ¦ dance ¦ Fodor ¦ Colin McGinn ¦ Wittgenstein
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I argue that the so-called ‘hard’ problem of consciousness – the problem of how consciousness is possible at all, and how it ‘connects’ with matter – is only an artefact of the ways in which human scientists approach consciousness and (more generally) mind. Putting the point paradoxically but also quite precisely: the efforts to solve the mind–body problem, and this its latest variant form, are the very disease of which they take themselves to be the cure. I give examples drawn from sociology and from philosophy to support this claim, and then try to mitigate this vicious consequence of Cognitivism in both disciplines by offering a Wittgensteinian dissolution of the (pseudo-)problem as an alternative to (hopeless) cognitivist efforts to solve it.

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