What is consciousness? I'll begin by looking at it from an early Buddhist perspective and then turn to work by contemporary philosophers like David Chalmers and Frank Jackson. In particular, I'll consider what Chalmers calls the "easy" and "hard" problems of consciousness, and what they tell us about what consciousness might be.
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00:00 Intro
00:50 Consciousness in Buddhism
02:06 The Problem of consciousness in Buddhism
03:58 What is consciousness?
08:06 David Chalmers and the “easy problem”
10:13 The problem with the “easy problem”
11:22 Frank Jackson’s thought experiment
13:28 The “hard problem” of consciousness
15:24 What the Buddha might say
15:53 Remaining questions
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