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Ideas of Churchland / Churchland, by Text

[American, fl. 1983, Husband and wife. Both taught at University of California.]

1997 Recent Work on Consciousness
p.163 It is question-begging to assume that qualia are totally simple, hence irreducible
p.165 A full neural account of qualia will give new epistemic access to them, beyond private experience
p.166 The qualia Hard Problem is easy, in comparison with the co-ordination of mental states