Materialism and the Nature of Consciousness Debate James Fodor vs Akhandadhi Das
Vedanta philosopher Akhandadhi Das argues against physicalist neuroscientist James Fodor that qualia and the unified experiencer are real functions no brain-only account can locate, while Fodor counters that anything beyond the brain is an ontological cost with zero explanatory payoff.
consciousness · hard problem of consciousness · materialism · philosophy of mind · physicalism · qualia · vedanta philosophy
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