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Originally Posted by MartinParish
To some degree, advances in science and our understanding of the natural world have probably made certain questions that philosophers argued for centuries virtually irrelevant; consciousness, for example, is now generally recognized to be an emergent property of the brain that has its origins in biochemistry,
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Indeed that's right, but it is not clear how claiming that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain explains much - in particular it seems to have a hard time explaining intentionality, how brain states can be "about" something that is not a brain state.