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Mysterianism. The problem of consciousness without a solution

12 May, 2023

It makes no sense to solve the problem of consciousness, because we are not able to achieve the solution. This is the thesis of Mysterianism. What makes the solution unattainable — find out in this episode of the podcast.


Guest — Alexey Pavlov, PhD, Junior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Moderator — Anton Kuznetsov, Ph.D., research associate at the Center for Consciousness Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University


Timecode:

00:00 - Introduction
01:44 - What is mysterianism in the philosophy of consciousness?
05:15 - Colin McGinn and why modern materialism is unsatisfactory
09:03 - What is cognitive closeness?
14:20 - Why are we cognitively closed about the problem of consciousness
18:10 - Philosophy of consciousness and fashion
19:17 - The mysterious C-property between consciousness and the physical
22:30 - Narrow and broad physicalism 
24:10 - Why physicalism after all? And how does Mysterianism differ from ordinary skepticism?
28:05 - Is it possible to overcome mysterianism through cognitive transformation
31:09 - How influential is Mysterianism in the philosophy of consciousness?
33:20 - Mysterianism in theology
37:50 - Criteria of unknowability
39:52 - Summary

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