The Conscious Mind

David Chalmers1996book

Selected reading: Explanatory gaps and empirical research questions.

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How to study this source

  • What would explain conscious experience?

    criticismExplanatory gaps and empirical research questions

    Reconstruct one argument about explanatory sufficiency and distinguish it from an empirical mechanism claim.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

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