The Very Basics of Consciousness: What is a Mind?

Descartes and Princess Elisabeth. Name a more iconic duo. Is dualism of the mind and body the answer? Or is the mind-body problem insurmountable? Will physicists be able to tell us what consciousness is? I don't have answers, only more questions. Also, what is it like to be a bat? Just curious. 

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Learn more about the topics discussed-

Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/elisabeth-bohemia/

René Descartes:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/

Thomas Nagel, What Is It Like to Be a Bat?:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/study/ugmodules/humananimalstudies/lectures/32/nagel_bat.pdf

David Chalmers, Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness:

https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/ChalmersHardProblem1995.pdf

Dan Dennett's TED page:

https://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_dennett

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