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Abstract:
Apart from our first-hand experience, there is no scientific
evidence for the existence of consciousness, so if it were not
for the subjective evidence provided by introspection, there
would be no discipline of consciousness studies, no conference on
this topic, and no discussion of "hard" versus "soft" problems of
consciousness. Given this fact, it is odd that since the time of
William James, while enormous progress has been made in terms of
behavioral and neuroscientific studies, no comparable progress
has been made in terms of refining the mind itself to make it a
more rigorous and reliable instrument for exploring states of
consciousness.
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