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Two Obstacles on the Way towards the Science of Consciousness
Jianfeng Li
Abstract
The paper discusses two obstacles standing on the way towards the science of consciousness and several possible
ways of removing them. The first obstacle reflects the tension between the hard problem of consciousness and
limitation of physics, which prevents us from directly talking about conscious experiences in theory. The second
obstacle is related with combination problem presented by panpsychism and removing this obstacle will help us
figure out what kind of system can be conscious and how to make a conscious machine. It is impossible to move on
towards the science of consciousness before these two obstacles have been thoroughly removed. In this paper, I
propose several methods to clear these two obstacles.
Keywords
Hard Problem, Combination Problem
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