The myth of when and where: How false assumptions still haunt theories of consciousness.
Consciousness and cognition January 1, 2022 Sepehrdad Rahimian 5 citations
The author argues that leading theories of consciousness fail to explain subjective experience because they rest on mistaken assumptions, creating a conflict between standard scientific methods and folk psychological notions. This cognitive dissonance blocks progress. Illusionism—the view that phenomenal consciousness is an illusion—is presented as the only viable framework for a scientific study of consciousness. Even if alternatives like panpsychism eventually prove correct, the author contends that the route to them must pass through Illusionism first.