The Function of Consciousness on Matter

Contemporary Chinese Thought 12 (3):38-54 (1981)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Note: This is an article I wrote in 1953. In recent years there have been new developments in the "debate between man and machines." Machines can "understand" what man says and do things according to human commands, facts that I did not know possible at the time. However, I believe that the ideas contained in this article concerning the views that only physical or material forces can effect changes in the state of matter and that there are two kinds of matter do not need to be revised because of these developments. — Author

Other Versions

reprint Guangyuan, Yu (1981) "The function of consciousness on matter". Chinese Studies in Philosophy 12(3):38

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 101,174

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Yu guang‐Yuan's two categories of matter.Karl Pfeifer - 1985 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 12 (1):57-62.
Walking Out of the "Doubting of Antiquity" Era.Li Xueqin - 2002 - Contemporary Chinese Thought 34 (2):26-49.
A quantum theory of consciousness.Shan Gao - 2007 - Minds and Machines 18 (1):39-52.
Are we spiritual machines?William A. Dembski - 1999 - First Things 96:25-31.
Causal laws, policy predictions and the need for genuine powers.Nancy Cartwright - 2007 - In Causal powers: what are they? why do we need them? what can be done with them and what cannot? Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science. pp. 6-30.

Analytics

Added to PP
2014-01-23

Downloads
12 (#1,373,211)

6 months
7 (#718,806)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

Yu guang‐Yuan's two categories of matter.Karl Pfeifer - 1985 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 12 (1):57-62.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references