Workshop # 29, Structures of Consciousness, Series 10, (S8,20)
This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 11.30 am UK, 7.30 am NY.

**You will need to view the relevant podcast** below on YouTube before joining the meeting in order to participate in the discussion.
[https://youtu.be/Yis2M7neMr0](https://youtu.be/Yis2M7neMr0)
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The workshops include of a prior presentation of the topic by myself on YouTube. The meeting itself consists of a brief review of the topic followed by questions and discussion. The weekly topic is posted a week before the event, together with a suggested reading from my work The Pursuit of Value, available through Amazon Books or myself. Transcripts of the Youtube presentation are available by email.

**THIS WEEK**: Stuart Sutherland wrote that “It is impossible to specify what it [consciousness] is”, others like Dennet and Rorty deny it any substantive existence, and physicalists regard consciousness as no more than a very refined aspect of the material world. Yet different aspect of the world, like physicality and logic, call for quite different methodologies, as must be expected of consciousness. Here, a structural approach seems to both explain the problems of consciousness as such as temporality, graduation and divisibility, and offers solutions in terms of value produced by those same structures. What then are the consequences and benefits of apprehending consciousness through particular structures? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 6. Secn. ii.

Derek Mazzone

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