{"id":35,"date":"2012-08-30T10:40:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T16:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2012-08-30T23:29:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T05:29:28","slug":"mindmelding-the-first-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Mindmelding: The First Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MindmeldingCover1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63\" title=\"MindmeldingCover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MindmeldingCover1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"63\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When approaching the mind-body problem (it will become clear below why I call it this and not &#8220;the problem of consciousness&#8221;), it is crucial to make the first division into sub-problems correctly. Otherwise, you analysis will not be able to recover from the error.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the correct first cut is into two sub-problems:<\/p>\n<p>1. The problem of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>2. The inside\/outside problem.<\/p>\n<p>The problem of consciousness is the question of how our conscious states are unified across several different brain areas.<\/p>\n<p>The inside\/outside problem is the question of why our conscious states appear differently to us, the owners of a brain, from the way they appear to outside observers.<\/p>\n<p>[More coming.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When approaching the mind-body problem (it will become clear below why I call it this and not &#8220;the problem of consciousness&#8221;), it is crucial to make the first division into sub-problems correctly. Otherwise, you analysis will not be able to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/?p=35\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindmeldingargs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}