5. From Correlates to Theories of Consciousness

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11 janvier 2019

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5.1 Measurement of the Physical World Randy is an elephant who lives at the bottom of my garden. Six blind men often come round to feel Randy. Sometimes I like to measure Randy. To measure his height, I compare my conscious experience of Randy with my conscious experience of a stick that has been calibrated against the distance light travels in a vacuum during 1⁄299,792,458 seconds. The ratio between Randy and the stick is his height in metres. Randy is three sticks (three metres) high (see F...

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