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📘 The nature of consciousness by Ned Joel Block

This text is an introduction to consciousness which aims to impose structure on the relating philosophical literature. There are sections covering stream of consciousness, theoretical issues, function of consciousness, subjectivity and the explanatory gap, the knowledge argument and qualia.

First publish date: 1997

Authors: Ned Joel Block

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