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Rahimian S. The myth of when and where: How false assumptions still haunt theories of consciousness. Conscious Cogn. 2021;97:103246doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2021.103246.
Rahimian, S. (2022). The myth of when and where: How false assumptions still haunt theories of consciousness. Consciousness and cognition, 97103246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103246
Rahimian, Sepehrdad. "The myth of when and where: How false assumptions still haunt theories of consciousness." Consciousness and cognition vol. 97 (2022): 103246. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103246
Rahimian S. The myth of when and where: How false assumptions still haunt theories of consciousness. Conscious Cogn. 2022 Jan;97:103246. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2021.103246. Epub 2021 Nov 30. PMID: 34861555.
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Conscious Cogn. 2022 Jan;97:103246. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2021.103246. Epub 2021 Nov 30.

The myth of when and where: How false assumptions still haunt theories of consciousness.

Consciousness and cognition

Sepehrdad Rahimian

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 34861555 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2021.103246

Abstract

Recent advances in neural sciences have uncovered countless facts about the brain. Although there is a plethora of theories of consciousness, it seems to some philosophers that there is still an explanatory gap when it comes to a scientific account of subjective experience. In what follows, I argue why some of our more commonly acknowledged theories do not at all provide us with an account of subjective experience as they are built on false assumptions. These assumptions have led us into a state of cognitive dissonance between maintaining our standard scientific practices on the one hand, and maintaining our folk notions on the other. I end by proposing Illusionism as the only option for a scientific investigation of consciousness and that even if ideas like panpsychism turn out to be holding the seemingly missing piece of the puzzle, the path to them must go through Illusionism.

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Keywords: Cartesian Materialism; Consciousness; Folk psychology; Illusionism; Phenomenal consciousness; Unfolding argument

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