This video begins with McGinn briefly listing the range of philosophical approaches that have been taken to the "hard problem of consciousness". As Michael Dooley points out, there are good reasons for a monist approach to "mind" and "consciousness" -- both can be altered by physical agents: drugs, blows to the head, etc. As David Chalmers points out, we each are certain that we are individually conscious: a certainty that Descartes employed in "je pense, donc je suis", or "cogito ergo sum".

Michael Tooley on Property Dualism:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2kSUwFLpr8
David Chalmers on Consciousness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmZaA_xoJiM
Cogito Ergo Sum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52hXr2WocPQ

"New Mysterianism is a philosophical position proposing that the hard problem of consciousness will never be explained; or at the least cannot be explained by the human mind at its current evolutionary stage. The unresolvable problem is how to explain sentience and qualia and their interaction with consciousness."

The argument of New Mysterians, such as McGinn "goes as follows: Subjective experiences by their very nature cannot be shared or compared. Therefore it is impossible to know what subjective experiences a system (other than ourselves) is having. This will always be the case, no matter what clever scientific tests we invent. Therefore, there are some questions about consciousness that will never be answered."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_McGinn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mysterianism

'Colin McGinn is a British philosopher currently working at the University of Miami. McGinn has also held major teaching positions at Oxford University and Rutgers University. Although McGinn has written dozens of articles in philosophical logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language, he is best known for his work in the philosophy of mind."

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"Colin McGinn on New Mysterianism"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFtGb9RKPo
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