{"id":76918,"date":"2023-01-12T11:27:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T10:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=76918"},"modified":"2023-01-12T11:27:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T10:27:57","slug":"what-if-consciousness-comes-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=76918","title":{"rendered":"What If Consciousness Comes First?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bridging the mind-body gap will require a fundamental shift in perspective.<\/p>\n

Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, Ph.D.: Ultimately, the hard problem of consciousness is the result of a category mistake. We have been trying to reduce consciousness to physical properties when it is consciousness that is the more comprehensive category, and it is only in terms of consciousness that physical properties themselves can be understood. For example, it was the great 18th-century philosopher Immanuel Kant who pointed out that, rather than consciousness being located inside of space and time, it is space and time that are themselves part of consciousness (1781).<\/p>\n

One can see how our having gotten this basic ontological relationship the wrong way around could be at the root of many of our frustrations in understanding, not only the relationship between consciousness and the physical world, but also the nature of consciousness itself. Recognizing the ontological primacy of consciousness could finally open the door to the kind of research that promises answers to some of our most pressing questions: not just scientific ones, but ethical and existential ones as well. Rather than trying to reduce consciousness to fit into the box of relational\/dispositional properties, it is time that we begin to explore it for what it is\u2014and for the answers that studying it on its own terms, in its full splendor and variety, stands to provide.<\/p>\n

To read the complete article please click here: https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/intl\/blog\/mysteries-consciousness\/201907\/what-if-consciousness-comes-first<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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