The Basics You Need
What Is Consciousness?
Prerequisites: qualia, subjective experience, the easy/hard problem distinction — and the Mary's Room anchor that runs through Lessons 4–6.
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6 pagesLesson 3 — The Basics You Need
Understanding the Complex: What Is Consciousness?
If you've studied philosophy of mind or cognitive science, skim this lesson — we'll reintroduce all the key terms as they come up in Lessons 4–6. For everyone else: this lesson gives you five concepts. No more. Just what you need to follow the argument.