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...Easy Problem, then, is to distinguish conscious from unconscious mental computation, identify its correlates in the brain and explain why it evolved...
...brain's spin doctoring is displayed even more dramatically in neurological conditions in which the healthy parts of the brain explain away the foibles of the damaged parts (which are invisible to the self because they are part of the self). A patient who fails to experience a visceral click of recognition when he sees his wife but who acknowledges that she looks and acts just like her deduces that she is an amazingly well-trained impostor. A patient who believes he is at home and is shown the hospital elevator says without missing a beat, "You wouldn't believe...
...understand consciousness--like finding out what wavelengths make people see green or how similar they say it is to blue, or what emotions they associate with it--boils down to information processing in the brain and thus gets sucked back into the Easy Problem, leaving nothing else to explain. Most people react to this argument with incredulity because it seems to deny the ultimate undeniable fact: our own experience...
...that most people find hard to stomach. Some mavericks, like the mathematician Roger Penrose, suggest the answer might someday be found in quantum mechanics. But to my ear, this amounts to the feeling that quantum mechanics sure is weird, and consciousness sure is weird, so maybe quantum mechanics can explain consciousness...
...would be BAWLS.Check that, I’m going to use two: BAWLS-nasty. You think I can’t use two words? I didn’t. That was one word. Hyphenated.For the layman who knows not what this sweet elixir of life to be, let me explain. Let me explain real quick for you.Imagine a dragon. Now, what if the dragon was the world. But the world is a dragon.That’s BAWLS.I drink a BAWLS to get crazy; I drink it to take a nap.I drink a BAWLS for glory; I drink it when...