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How do I know I'm in pain?

9 January, 2022

Some philosophers and scientists believe that consciousness is an example of a cognitive error, and offer clever arguments in favor of this. But the antidote to them can be found and the authenticity of consciousness can be saved.


Participants: 
Vadim Vasilyev - Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, Co-Director of the MCCS at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University 
Anton Kuznetsov is a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, a researcher at the MCCS at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. 
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Timecode: 
00:00 - Introduction and plan 
03:04 - Is consciousness the foundation of cognition 
03:27 - Why is there no parallel between the problem of the existence of the external world and the problem of the existence of consciousness 
06:15 - Without the certainty of consciousness, no knowledge is possible 
07:45 - When we are wrong about our consciousness 
11:23 - Then what can be known in the inner world reliably? 
13:05 - The illusion of a mirror box. We are wrong not in consciousness, but in interpretation 
15:55 - The Invisible gorilla. Attention and consciousness 
17:08 - The anti-luminescence argument. I'm cold when I'm hot 
19:51 - The fallacy of the argument. Misconception about the work of consciousness 
23:44 - To know about consciousness and be sensitive to changes in its states - different abilities 
28:11 - The unsatisfactoriness of radical skepticism about consciousness 
29:34 - Inconsistency of the theory of illusory consciousness 
33:46 - What is introspection as a mechanism of knowledge about consciousness? 
35:44 - Optimism about consciousness and pessimism about personality 
36:53 - Summary

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