What is it like to be a cat?

Nora the famous Piano cat

Cats are conscious, most of us would agree on this, but how conscious are they?

New Book available online: Anatomy of the soul

This book has been posted in the newsgroup of the Journal of Consciousness Studies a few days ago. I have not read it thoroughly, just across, so I cannot recommend it or even comment on it. It is available for download as PDF for free. So maybe you have a look yourself.
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Zombie Blues

Maybe it is time for some ZOMBIFICATION?

David Chalmers is well known for the hard problem of consciousnes, but almost as well for zombies. It was difficult to find this gem of a youtube clip. They could certainly improve musically, on the other hand: would that still be zombification?

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Meanwhile a lot of water went down the Rhine and I am still not sure if I should continue with this Blog.
Most of the time I was involved in defining consciousness. First I tried to invite people into my own forum, which is basically idle now. That call led to a long discussion here on [...]