{"id":197627,"date":"2024-10-14T05:25:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T10:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/susan-blackmores-illusionism"},"modified":"2024-10-14T05:25:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T10:25:12","slug":"susan-blackmores-illusionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/susan-blackmores-illusionism","title":{"rendered":"Susan Blackmore\u2019s illusionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vJG698U2Mvo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Susan Blackmore\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Consciousness-Very-Short-Introduction-Introductions-ebook\/dp\/B075KCDN55\/?tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction<\/a><\/em> may have been the first book I read on consciousness many years ago. Recent conversations rekindled my interest in her views.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty sure her discussion of consciousness as an illusion was the first time I had encountered that idea. Strong illusionists such as Keith Frankish and Daniel Dennett generally take the stance that phenomenal consciousness doesn\u2019t exist. Blackmore\u2019s illusionism seems like a weaker form, that consciousness exists but isn\u2019t what it seems. And by \u201cconsciousness\u201d she stipulates in one of her books that she usually means phenomenal consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the difference between a strong and weak illusionist can be seen as mostly definitional. Strong illusionists generally take \u201cphenomenal consciousness\u201d to refer to the metaphysically intrinsic, private, ineffable, and incorrigible concept discussed by Nagel, Chalmers, and other non-physicalists, one that is ontologically separate from access (<i>functional<\/i>) consciousness. A weak illusionist sees this version as illusory, but is more willing to just consider the illusion itself a reconstructed version of \u201cphenomenal\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Blackmore\u2019s Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction may have been the first book I read on consciousness many years ago. Recent conversations rekindled my interest in her views. I\u2019m pretty sure her discussion of consciousness as an illusion was the first time I had encountered that idea. Strong illusionists such as Keith Frankish and Daniel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}