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Materialist Theories of Consciousness
Substance of a talk given in Brecon, April 2016. It can be downloaded as a PDF here.
Introduction - the stuff of the world
The challenge of psycho-physics - Ernst Mach
From Nature to Mechanics - Mach and Bogdanov
The world before consciousness - Bogdanov, Plekhanov, Lenin
Consciousness as a reflex (re)action - Pavlov, Trotsky
Consciousness and evolution - the selfish gene
Does Consciousness exist? - James, Russell, Ryle
Reducing the Empire of Consciousness - Dennett
Enlarging the empire of consciousness - Strawson
The meme and the ultimate sesmet