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Episode 35: Consciousness and Funky Content

Episode 35: Consciousness and Funky Content

Update: 2015-10-31
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Things get funky when Richard Brown and Pete Mandik tackle this funky question about consciousness and its contents: In order to account for consciousness in terms of representational content, how FUNKY does the content need to be? Along the way we discuss the representation of inexistents and whether mathematical structuralism can shed light on the conceivability of undetectable qualia inversions. Is there any real difference (as opposed to a merely notational difference) between the square root of negative one and the negative square root of negative one? If so, what would that tell us about the question of whether intersubjectively undetectable qualia inversions are conceivable? Anything?

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Episode 35: Consciousness and Funky Content

Episode 35: Consciousness and Funky Content

Richard Brown & Pete Mandik