When you examine the brain, you can learn a lot and see chemical interactions, but you cannot find anything about the first-person nature of things we experience as humans, such as colours and pain. This talk by Paul Skokowski (Visiting Fellow at St Edmund Hall, from Stanford University) takes an introductory look at different philosophical theories relating to this - including dualism, epiphenomenalism, identity theory and externalism.
This is one in a series of short 'Teddy Talks' presented at St Edmund Hall's Research Expo in 2017.
Find out more at www.seh.ox.ac.uk/expo.
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