Here's the big question about consciousness, our inner experience of what things feel like. Is consciousness a product of the physical world alone? Because if consciousness is the output of the physical brain by itself, however complex, then consciousness as physicalism would defeat those who believe, or hope for, the existence of nonphysical realities.

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Hubert Lederer Dreyfus is an American philosopher. He is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley researching phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of psychology and literature.

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