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Some time ago, in an article for the Journal of Consciousness Studies, David Chalmers challenged his peers to identify the ingredient missing from our current theories of consciousness, the absence of which prevents us from solving the 'hard' problem and forces us to make do with nonreductive theories. Here I respond to this challenge. I suggest that consciousness is a metaphysical problem and as such can be solved only within a global metaphysical theory. Such a theory would look very like the information theory proposed by Chalmers, but with the addition of an extra phenomenon that would allow it to become fundamental.
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Keywords | Consciousness Metaphysics Naturalism Mysticism Hard problem |
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