Summaries per chapter with the 3rd edition of Consciousness: An Introduction by Blackmore & Troscianko
Summaries per chapter with the 3rd edition of Consciousness: An Introduction by Blackmore & Troscianko
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Summaries per chapter with the 3rd edition of Consciousness: An Introduction by Blackmore & Troscianko
The problem of consciousness is related to one of the oldest questions of philosophy: what does the world consist of? Who am I? This is in principle related to the mind-body problem: what is the relationship between the physical and the mental? Solutions to this problem can be distinguished in monistic theories, which suggest that there are one kind of things in the world, and dualistic theories, which suggest that there are two kinds of things.
Monistic theories assume that the world consists of only one kind of matter (body or mind). Examples of supporters of these monistic theories are the materialists.
In dualism it is a combination of matter (the body) and spirit. The most famous dualist is René Descartes. There are two types of dualism,
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