William James questioned why specific conscious states, such as pain and pleasure, evolved as by-products of specific physical states rather than others, such as why pain evolved with harmful processes like burning and pleasure with beneficial processes like eating.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: Cambridge University Press
  Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness

Sources

• Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press via serper

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• pain concept
• conscious states concept
• William James entity
• physical state concept
• pleasure concept