Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality