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Consciousness Isn’t a Mystery. It’s Matter.
Every day, it seems, some verifiably intelligent person tells us that we don’t know what consciousness is. The nature of consciousness, they say, is an awesome mystery. It’s the ultimate hard problem. The current Wikipedia entry is typical: Consciousness “is the most mysterious aspect of our lives”; philosophers “have struggled to comprehend the nature of consciousness.”
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This article gave me a headache. As I was reading it I first thought it was a very nice alternative perspective on the problem of consciousness, then I thought that it was crazy, and then I thought that I don't know what to think about it.
I guess that makes it a good philosophy article. I'll go get my ibuprofen.