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One of my clearest memories of early childhood finds me sitting alone in my bedroom at twilight when I was about five, pondering a curious family of questions. Why does the universe exist? What if it didn’t? What would be left over if it stopped existing? Wouldn’t something still exist? What colour would it be? Even now, the questions elicit the same peculiar twisting sensation from my stomach. And now, as then, I find the basic mystery of why anything exists the most unfathomable of all.
Nobody has the slightest idea how anything 17Ulterial could be conscious. Nobody even knows what it would be like to have the slightest idea… So much for the philosophy of consciousness. (Fodor 1992)
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Mulhauser, G.R. (1998). Frontal Assault. In: Mind Out of Matter. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5104-7_1
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