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. 2019 Feb 5:10:63.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00063. eCollection 2019.

Mind-Object Identity: A Solution to the Hard Problem

Riccardo Manzotti  1
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Mind-Object Identity: A Solution to the Hard Problem

Riccardo Manzotti. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Here I present a mind-object identity theory based on a straightforward hypothesis: One's experience of an object is identical with the object itself. To defend this hypothesis, I will reconsider the notion of a physical object in terms of relative and actual properties. To address cases of misperception such as dreams and hallucinations, I will also reconsider the notion of present in relative terms. Both the object and the present are recast as object-relative.

Keywords: argument from illusion; consciousness; hallucination; hard problem of consciousness; naturalism; philosophy of mind; physicalism.

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Perception vs. hallucination. They are the same. Only the length of the time span is different.
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