This is the deep course, not the introduction. Assuming you already know the six terms and the one wager, Berkeley C walks you through the whole of CF Dietz's paper as a living argument: the six commitments and why the starting datum entails none of the others; how closure builds a world and how that world becomes public; a cosmos with time inside it; why there are many minds and why brains matter; remainder as the paper's positive heart, kept sharply apart from mere model error; the framework set against its sharpest rivals from physicalism to IIT; and exactly how the conjecture could earn its place, and what would prove it wrong. You leave able to state each claim, place it against a rival, and name its kill condition. Built on Consciousness, Closure, and the Cosmos, Version 5.4.
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