the trick to success in the philosophy of consciousness cottage industry is to spend so much time talking about the implications of your model that everybody forgets that your model isn't a model of consciousness and has no explanatory power for the phenomenon of consciousness
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I strongly disagree with your definitely there. We have far too little understanding that make such bold claims. But I agree that either way on that question, the question of who or what we are as an observer is itself a maddening question.
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aside from how the perception of consciously making decisions has been well shown by neuroimaging to be illusory, the actual decision happening way before the perception of a decision to be made occurs, free will can't even be formed into a usable concept
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