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“Identifying the primary function consciousness performs amounts to answering the question posed by Chalmers (1995), of why the brain might not just as well operate in the dark, in subjective silence.”
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- Authors
- Chalmers, D. J.
- Affiliations
- Australian National University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Chalmers, David J.
- ORCID
- Chalmers, David J.
- Venue
- The Character of Consciousness
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2010-10-07
- Pages
- 3-34
- OpenAlex
- W4230446842
- Semantic Scholar
- c2a06f095a81f5f979ffe5aa664c175a625fba0c
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- en
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Free Will and Agency
- Keywords
- consciousness, problem of consciousness, philosophy of mind, mind-body problem
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