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On Consciousness: The New York Review Of Books
“What is the silliest claim ever made?
“The competition is fierce, but I think the answer is easy. Some people have denied the existence of consciousness: conscious experience, the subjective character of experience, the “what-it-is-like” of experience. Next to this denial—I’ll call it “the Denial”—every known religious belief is only a little less sensible than the belief that grass is green.”
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This essay is adapted from Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc., published this week by New York Review Books.