Emerson Green walks through three powerful objections to attempts to reduce consciousness to the brain: phenomenal transparency, philosophical zombies, and vagueness.Check out Emerson's YouTube channel.

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EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:05 What are you a YouTuber?

00:19:08 Objection #1 - Phenomenal transparency

00:29:22 Why physicalism cannot tolerate transparency

00:32:31 What if consciousness is translucent?

00:38:36 Maybe there are no mental states at all

00:49:52 Objection #2 - Philosophical zombies

01:00:57 Different types of conceivability

01:12:29 What about modal skepticism?

01:17:32 Objection #3 - Vagueness

01:24:40 When do we go from non-conscious to conscious?

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