Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line. Russian mystic & novelist
The Anna Karenina theory says: all conscious states are alike; each unconscious state is unconscious in its own way. Ned Block argues that components have to function properly to produce consciousness, but failure in any one of many different ones can
yield an unconscious state in different ways. In that sense the Anna Karenina theory is true.
But in another respect it is false: kinds
of unconsciousness depend on kinds of consciousness
Source Ned Block
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