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Is Consciousness an Insoluble Problem?
We currently understand very little about how the brains hundred thousand million neurons enable us to function, but as technology provides more neurological detail, the mechanisms behind all our various abilities will become intelligible. Thats why philosopher David Chalmers calls this the easy problem its potentially soluble.
However, the hard problem remains: how do the blind, deaf and unemotional particles in our brains conspire to create the colours, sounds, thoughts and feelings comprising our consciousness? Was Alpine climber John Tyndall right to say, in 1868, that this confronted us with an intellectually impassable chasm?
Norman Bacrac has made an in-depth study of this quandary.
Doors 10.30. Entry £3, £2 concs./free to Conway Hall Ethical Society members.
Tea, coffee & biscuits will be available.
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LocationConway Hall (View)
25 Red Lion Square
London WC1R 4RL
United Kingdom
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