Wittgenstein's strategy for dissolving philosophical problems about consciousness involves investigating how words like 'self,' 'consciousness,' 'belief,' 'truth,' and 'knowledge' are actually used in everyday human life rather than assuming they have hidden metaphysical essences, and by doing so one can often dissolve the sense that there is a philosophical problem at all.

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Speaker

Murray Shanahan

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“let's not ask what words mean or what a sentence means but let's ask how the words are used and how the sentences are used in everyday human life”

Source

Human vs. Machine Consciousness | Imperial’s Murray Shanahan— Johnathan Bi
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:51:36 AM

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