Philosophy · Philosophy of Mind
A topic within Philosophy of Mind, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Thomas Nagel
Argues that consciousness has an essentially subjective character, there being something it is like to have an experience, that no amount of objective physical description can capture, using bat echolocation as the test case.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Frank Jackson
Imagines a scientist who knows every physical fact about colour vision but has only ever seen black and white, and argues that when she finally sees red she learns something new, so physical facts cannot be all the facts.
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