How Can We Study Consciousness Scientifically?
Tam Hunt offers some ideas at Scientific American but his dismissal of objectivity is cause for concern. There is a better way.Hunt is right that the scientific study of consciousness using merely third-person objective data is flawed—it is the idiotic flaw of behaviorism—but the notion that “objective” data needs scare quotes opens the door to a deconstruction of our knowledge of the natural world that is every bit as idiotic and dangerous as the crude materialist objectification of consciousness.
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