The easy and hard problems of consciousness: A Cartesian perspective

Journal of Mind and Behavior

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 119-140

  Mills, Frederick B ^a  

^a BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EXISTENTIALISM; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHENOMENOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIGION; REVIEW; SCIENCE; THEORY;

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