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Relation to the world· Mind and consciousness

Illusionism

Axis: The enigma of consciousness — Can a science of the brain fully explain lived experience?

The qualitative feel we think we grasp by introspection is an illusion the brain makes about itself. There are no qualia to explain: only mechanisms that make us believe there are.

This position is still lightly documented.

Other positions on this axis: Reductive physicalism · Substance dualism · Property dualism · Panpsychism

Related axes: Can a machine think · Nature of reality · Freedom of the will · Place of science · After death