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wowoc 22 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: It is time to give up the dualism introduced by th...

Thomas Nagel's definition of consciousness is pretty good: "an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism."

etiam 22 days ago [–]

What do you find good about that?

namero999 22 days ago | [–]

The like-ness properly capture in one go the first-person and the phenomenal aspects of consciousness.

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