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The relationship between conscious experience and brain states is central to the philosophy of mind, where theories like physicalism equate the two [1], while critics argue that physical laws governing brain states fail to explain the emergence of conscious experience [2], [3], and [4]. Furthermore, the conceptual link is debated through the lens of whether awareness of one's own conscious experience is identical to awareness of specific brain states [5].
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The Conscious Mind - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimReductive accounts of consciousness fail because they cannot explain why specific brain states are accompanied by conscious experience.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers believes that an adequate theory of consciousness requires solving both the hard and easy problems, meaning science must discover not only brain states associated with conscious experience but also why and how those brain states are accompanied by experience.
Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness link.springer.com 2 facts
perspectivePhysicalists posit that being aware of a conscious experience is equivalent to being aware of one's own physical brain state.
claimThe physicalist assertion that awareness of a conscious experience is awareness of a brain state clashes with common intuition, as individuals generally lack understanding of the neural transmissions occurring in their brains during an experience.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
perspectiveThe author argues that Frank Jackson's analogy of evolutionary by-products fails for mental states because the laws of physics governing brain states do not explain why those brain states produce conscious experiences.