. But it is the unsolved Hard Problem of Consciousness, as some would say, to prove that the person home in your body is you. We could have an extra consciousness-essence attached to these bodies, they say. You can’t prove we don’t!
It has virtually nothing to do with personal identity.
Dennett thinks peoples’ expectations are that “real qualia” are the things that live in the space of epiphenomenal essences and can’t possibly be the equivalent of a conjuring trick.
If they are a trick,. no one has explained how it is pulled off.
No, they are primarily about explanation.
It has virtually nothing to do with personal identity.
If they are a trick,. no one has explained how it is pulled off.