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The provided text explores Riccardo Manzotti’s “Mind-Object Identity” theory, which proposes that a person’s conscious experience is identical to the external object being perceived rather than a process inside the brain.
This radical physicalist perspective, known as the Spread Mind, argues that consciousness is located in the environment and exists as a set of relative properties determined by their interaction with the human body. By redefining objects as actual and relative entities, the author seeks to resolve the “hard problem” of consciousness without relying on mental representations or internal subjective states.
The source further explains that even dreams and hallucinations are reshuffled perceptions of real physical objects spread across different points in space and time. Ultimately, the theory suggests that we are not our bodies, but are instead the very world of objects that our bodies bring into relative existence.
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