E20: The Great Silliness - Consciousness Does Not Exist

Summary: Harland and Ryan were born on the same day 3 years apart. December 22. To celebrate they're doing an episode on consciousness and how you, yes you, dont have it!! Happy birthday to us, eh? Eh... They don't know philosopher Keith Frankish's birthday, but he doesn't think you have consciousness either even if he doesnt say it explicitly. C'mon Keith!! It's the Dawdlers' birthday!! Jerk. Here's deep birthday vibe dives into a piece Keith wrote about Illusionism and Consciousness. -Dawds 00:00:00 The Great Silliness: Keith Frankish's Consciousness as Illusion 00:06:58 Provocative v. Defensible Claims, Definition of Consciousness, The Hard Problem 00:13:39 The Illusion Problem, Realist v. Illusionist Theories, Psychokinesis example 00:24:25 Phenomenal v. Access Consciousness, What-its-like-ness 00:28:36 Quasi-phenomenal properties, Penrose triangle & Operating System User Illusions 00:40:55 Representations, Interpretations, & Counting transductions 00:50:13 Zombies & What-its-like-type-II, How quasi-phenomenality works in illusionism 00:57:51 Arguments against Realism & for Illusionism, Epiphenomenalism & Occam 01:07:20 Qualia & the Alien Ashtrays, Objections to Illusionism considered 01:28:46 Illusionism v. Eliminativism, Harland's Metaphilosophical Argument 01:39:57 Ryan's Big Question: Why do people care about what they care about?