Beschreibung:
Argues that the idea that consciousness poses a hard problem is plausibly based on how consciousness appears to us in first-person access. The book offers a debunking argument to undercut the justificatory link between the first-person appearances and our hard problem intuitions.
1. Explanatory Optimism 2. The Hard Problem and Qualitative Inaccuracy 3. The Appearances to be Explained 4. Present and Past Debunkers 5. Automated Compression Theory 6. ACT, Expertise, and First-Person Access 7. Optimistic ACT at Work