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  The mind/body problem is the feeling/function problem (Harnad 2001). The only way to "solve" it is to provide a
  causal/functional explanation of how and why we feel... 
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commref: "Dan Dennett's forthcoming paper, \"The Fantasy of First-Person Science,\" based on his recent debate with Dave Chalmers  about consciousness http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/chalmersdeb3dft.htm"
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  Harnad, S. (1982) Consciousness: An afterthought. Cognition and Brain Theory 5: 29 - 47. 
  
  Harnad, S. (1991) "Other Bodies, Other Minds: A Machine Incarnation of an Old Philosophical Problem"Minds and Machines 1: 43-54. 
  
  Harnad, S. (1990) The Symbol Grounding Problem Physica D 42: 335-346. 
  
  Harnad, S. (unpub. ms.) There Is Only One Mind/Body Problem. (Presented at Symposium on the Perception of Intentionality, XXV World Congress of Psychology, Brussels, Belgium, July 1992) International Journal of Psychology 27: 521 (Abstract) http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnadXX.one.mind.body.problem.html 
  
  Harnad, S. (1995) What Thoughts Are Made Of. Nature 378: 455-456. Book Review of: Churchland, PM. (1995) The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain (MIT Press) and Greenfield, SA (1995) Journey to the Centers of the Mind. (Freeman) 
  
  Harnad, Stevan (1995) "Why and How We Are Not Zombies. Journal of Consciousness Studies1:164-167. 
  
  Harnad, S. (1996) What to Do About Feelings? [Published as "Conscious Ecumenism" Review of PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness] Times Higher Education Supplement. June 7 1996, P. 29. 
  
  Harnad, S. (1998) Hardships of Cognitive Science. Review of J. Shear (Ed.) Explaining Consciousness (MIT/Bradford 1997) Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2(6): 234-235. 
  http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad98.explaining.consciousness.html 
  
  Harnad, S. (2000) Minds, Machines, and Turing: The Indistinguishability of Indistinguishables. Journal of Logic, Language, and Information 9(4): 425-445. (special issue on "Alan Turing and Artificial Intelligence") http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.turing.html 
  
  Harnad, S. (2000a) Correlation Vs. Causality: How/Why the Mind/Body Problem Is Hard. [Invited Commentary of Humphrey, N. "How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem"] Journal of Consciousness Studies 7(4): 54-61. 
  http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.mind.humphrey.html 
  
  Harnad, S. (2001) No Easy Way Out. The Sciences 41(2) 36-42. 
  http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/thesciences.htm 
  (Original longer version "Explaining the Mind: Problems, Problems" 
  http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/bookrev.htm ) 
  
  Harnad, S. (in press) Turing Indistinguishability and the Blind Watchmaker. In: J. Fetzer & G. Mulhauser, (eds.) Evolving Consciousness Amsterdam: John Benjamins (in press) http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad98.turing.evol.html 
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title: 'The Mind/Body Problem is the Feeling/Function Problem: Harnad on Dennett on Chalmers'
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