Actually, I Think Most People Accept The

It Probably Helps That My Background Is In The Sciences And I Can Speak The Scientists' Language.

There's Certainly Nothing Original About The Observation That Conscious Experience Poses A Hard Problem.

Because The Idea Of Zombies Seems To Make Sense, And Seems To, In A Certain Sense, Be Possible, I Think One Can Use That To Argue Against The Thesis That Everything Is Purely Physical. Now Many People, I Think, Agree That The Idea Of Zombies Are Conceivable, Including People Who Want To Be Physicalists.

Now I Have To Say I'm A Complete Atheist, I Have No Religious Views Myself And No Spiritual Views, Except Very Watered Down Humanistic Spiritual Views, And Consciousness Is Just A Fact Of Life, It's A Natural Fact Of Life.

Within Psychology And Neuroscience, Some New And Rigorous Experimental Paradigms For Studying Consciousness Have Helped It Begin To Overcome The Stigma That Has Been Attached To The Topic For Most Of This Century.