Results for 'Functions of consciousness'

951 found
Order:
  1.  71
    Definitely maybe: can unconscious processes perform the same functions as conscious processes?Guido Hesselmann & Pieter Moors - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6:145300.
    Hassin recently proposed the “Yes It Can” (YIC) principle to describe the division of labor between conscious and unconscious processes in human cognition. According to this principle, unconscious processes can carry out every fundamental high-level cognitive function that conscious processes can perform. In our commentary, we argue that the author presents an overly idealized review of the literature in support of the YIC principle. Furthermore, we point out that the dissimilar trends observed in social and cognitive psychology, with respect to (...)
    Direct download (7 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   15 citations  
  2.  34
    Functional brain imaging to search for consciousness needs attention.John G. Taylor - 2001 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 (3):39-43.
    The approach of Revonsuo is criticised as being based on a misplaced emphasis on coupled oscillatory dynamics, as well as on too limited an approach to recent advances in brain imaging. This results in the nature of attention as a basic component in consciousness being ignored, and prevents any attempt to attack the crucial problem for consciousness of inner experience: of ‘what it is like to be’.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  3.  10
    Consciousness and the intercortical correlation function.Kimiaki Konno, Yoichi Katayama & Takamitsu Yamamoto - 2002 - In Kunio Yasue, Mari Jibu & Tarcisio Della Senta, No Matter, Never Mind: Proceedings of Toward a Science of Consciousness: Fundamental Approaches (Tokyo '99). John Benjamins. pp. 33--301.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  4.  24
    Can philosophy discover consciousness in the brain? Commentary on Revonsuo's Can Functional Brain Imaging Discover Consciousness in the Brain?.Geraint Rees - 2001 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 (3):34-38.
    Revonsuo makes a provocative and interesting claim: that currently available neurophysiological recording techniques will be unable to discover the neural basis of consciousness in the brain. Although the title refers exclusively to functional brain imaging, Revonsuo considers MEG, EEG, ERP and measurements of firing rate in single cell electrophysiology all in principle incapable of discovering consciousness in the brain. This conclusion is reached by assuming that only one particular type of physical entity constitutes awareness.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  5. Consciousness cannot be separated from function.Michael A. Cohen & Daniel C. Dennett - 2011 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15 (8):358--364.
    Here, we argue that any neurobiological theory based on an experience/function division cannot be empirically confirmed or falsified and is thus outside the scope of science. A ‘perfect experiment’ illustrates this point, highlighting the unbreachable boundaries of the scientific study of consciousness. We describe a more nuanced notion of cognitive access that captures personal experience without positing the existence of inaccessible conscious states. Finally, we discuss the criteria necessary for forming and testing a falsifiable theory of consciousness.
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   156 citations  
  6. Consciousness as self-function.Donald R. Perlis - 1997 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 4 (5-6):509-25.
    I argue that consciousness is an aspect of an agent's intelligence, hence of its ability to deal adaptively with the world. In particular, it allows for the possibility of noting and correcting the agent's errors, as actions performed by itself. This in turn requires a robust self-concept as part of the agent's world model; the appropriate notion of self here is a special one, allowing for a very strong kind of self-reference. It also requires the capability to come to (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   10 citations  
  7. Consciousness, Function, and Representation: Collected Papers.Ned Block - 2007 - Bradford.
    This volume of Ned Block's writings collects his papers on consciousness, functionalism, and representationism. A number of these papers treat the significance of the multiple realizability of mental states for the mind-body problem -- a theme that has concerned Block since the 1960s. One paper on this topic considers the upshot for the mind-body problem of the possibility of a robot that is functionally like us but physically different -- as is Commander Data of _Star Trek's_ second generation. The (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   34 citations  
  8.  46
    Consciousness and brain function.Grant R. Gillett - 1988 - Philosophical Psychology 1 (3):325-39.
    Abstract The language of consciousness and that of brain function seem vastly different and incommensurable ways of approaching human mental life. If we look at what we mean by consciousness we find that it has a great deal to do with the sensitivity and responsiveness shown by a subject toward things that happen. Philosophically, we can understnd ascriptions of consciousness best by looking at the conditions which make it true for thinkers who share the concept to say (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   6 citations  
  9. Consciousness and its function.David Rosenthal - 2008
    MS, under submission, derived from a Powerpoint presentation at a Conference on Consciousness, Memory, and Perception, in honor of Larry Weiskrantz, City University, London, September 15, 2006.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   57 citations  
  10.  14
    Understanding consciousness: its function and brain processes.Gerd Sommerhoff - 2000 - Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.
    “This is surely the ultimate expression of the top-down approach to consciousness, written with Sommerhoff's characteristic clarity and precision. It says far more than other books four times the size of this admirably concise volume. This book is destined to become a pillar of the subject.” —Rodney Cotterill, Technical University of Denmark The problem of consciousness has been described as a mystery about which we are still in a terrible muddle and in Understanding Consciousness: Its Function and (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  11.  84
    The operative mind: A functional, computational and modeling approach to machine consciousness.Carlos Hernández, Ignacio López & Ricardo Sanz - 2009 - International Journal of Machine Consciousness 1 (1):83-98.
    The functional capabilities that consciousness seems to provide to biological systems can supply valuable principles in the design of more autonomous and robust technical systems. These functional concepts keep a notable similarity to those underlying the notion of operating system in software engineering, which allows us to specialize the computer metaphor for the mind into that of the operating system metaphor for consciousness. In this article, departing from these ideas and a model-based theoretical framework for cognition, we present (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  12.  73
    Consciousness, cortical function, and pain perception in nonverbal humans.K. J. S. Anand - 2007 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (1):82-83.
    Postulating the subcortical organization of human consciousness provides a critical link for the construal of pain in patients with impaired cortical function or cortical immaturity during early development. Practical implications of the centrencephalic proposal include the redefinition of pain, improved pain assessment in nonverbal humans, and benefits of adequate analgesia/anesthesia for these patients, which certainly justify the rigorous scientific efforts required. (Published Online May 1 2007).
    Direct download (6 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  13.  16
    Consciousness and Commissurotomy: II. Some Pertinencies for Intact Functioning.Thomas Natsoulas - 1988 - Journal of Mind and Behavior 9 (4).
  14.  44
    Can functional and phenomenal consciousness be divided?J. G. Taylor - 2012 - International Journal of Machine Consciousness 4 (02):457-469.
  15.  35
    Consciousness’ and Brain Functions: A Re-look from Functionalist Perspective.Suresh Muruganandam - 2022 - International Journal of Philosophy 10 (1):1.
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  16. Is the mind conscious, functional, or both?Max Velmans - 1990 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (4):629-630.
    What, in essence, characterizes the mind? According to Searle, the potential to be conscious provides the only definitive criterion. Thus, conscious states are unquestionably "mental"; "shallow unconscious" states are also "mental" by virtue of their capacity to be conscious (at least in principle); but there are no "deep unconscious mental states" - i.e. those rules and procedures without access to consciousness, inferred by cognitive science to characterize the operations of the unconscious mind are not mental at all. Indeed, according (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   105 citations  
  17.  16
    Consciousness and the Measurement Problem in Quantum Mechanics.Paavo Pylkkänen & Gustaf Malmberg - unknown
    The idea that consciousness is somehow needed to collapse the wave function was emphasized especially by Eugene Wigner in 1961 and has recently been discussed by e.g. David Chalmers and Kelvin McQueen. We revisit the reasons why the idea was proposed in the first place and briefly consider Chalmers and McQueen’s discussion.
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  18.  13
    Consciousness: Its Nature and Functions.Shulamith Kreitle & Oded Maimon (eds.) - 2012 - New York: Nova Science Publisher's.
    Human beings seem to have been always aware of something they called consciousness and have not stopped wondering what it is, what it does, where it came from, and why we have it. This book is testimony to the continuous attempts to crack the riddle, in the 21st century no less, if not even more than before. The book expresses two major convictions. One is that consciousness has a multiplicity of aspects, which need to be considered in order (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  19. Can functional brain imaging discover consciousness in the brain?Antti Revonsuo - 2001 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 (3):3-23.
    If we assume that consciousness is a natural biological phenomenon in the brain, should we expect the current brain sensing and imaging methods to somehow ‘discover’ consciousness? The answer depends on the following points: What kind of level of biological organization do we assume consciousness to be? What would count as the discovery of this level? What are the levels of organization from which the currently available research instruments pick signals and acquire data? Single-cell recordings, PET, fMRI, (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   13 citations  
  20.  57
    What if Consciousness has no Function?Sofia Belardinelli & Telmo Pievani - 2023 - Biosemiotics 16 (2):259-267.
    In this commentary, as philosophers of evolutionary biology, we will consider the evolutionary framework used in the Target Article by: (i) emphasising the fruitfulness of the interdisciplinary approach employed; (ii) highlighting some potentially controversial aspects of the proposal; and finally (iii) outlining some ideas for further integration within the UAL framework. The critical analysis will focus on the relationship between learning and consciousness, on the assumed need for a function for consciousness, and on the type of phylogenetic demarcation (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  21. Dynamic geometry, brain function modeling, and consciousness.S. Roy & R. Llinás - 2008 - In Rahul Banerjee & Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Models of brain and mind: physical, computational, and psychological approaches. Boston: Elsevier.
  22.  30
    Resilient architectures to facilitate both functional consciousness and phenomenal consciousness in machines.Uma Ramamurthy & Stan Franklin - 2009 - International Journal of Machine Consciousness 1 (2):243-253.
    Cognitive theories of consciousness should provide effective frameworks to implement machine consciousness. The Global Workspace Theory is a leading theory of consciousness which postulates that the primary function of consciousness is a global broadcast that facilitates recruitment of internal resources to deal with the current situation as well as modulate several types of learning. In this paper, we look at architectures for machine consciousness that have the Global Workspace Theory as their basis and discuss the (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   7 citations  
  23.  46
    Conscious and unconscious mental states.Craig K. Lehman - 1981 - Philosophy Research Archives 1451:1-23.
    The purpose of the paper is to analyze the distinction between conscious and unconscious mental states, as when people say "Admittedly I did X, but I wasn't conscious of it." It is argued that "unconscious" varieties of mental states, processes, or events---even perception---can be analyzed entirely in terms of the possession, exercise, acquiring, or loss, of dispositions, whereas conscious mental states involve the same dispositional items, temporally conjoined with at least one of a variety of appropriate experiences. The "temporal conjunction" (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  24. The function of consciousness on matter+ how consciousness acts on the material world.Gy Yu - 1981 - Chinese Studies in Philosophy 12 (3):38-54.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  25. Consciousness Again.Ulrich De Balbian - 2021 - Oxford: Academic.
    The tools employed might appear appropriate, the reasoning sound and argumentation valid, but the subject-matter, well one wonders what that has to do with philosophy, if anything at all? Viewing some of the topics one really wonders of the notion of philosophy is not stretched too far? So much that is passed off as philosophy itself or some kind of so-called interdisciplinary issues really appear as irrelevant. tempt to interpret, perceive and treat as if they a Topics from the grievance (...)
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  26. Agent causation, functional explanation, and epiphenomenal engines: Can conscious mental events be causally efficacious?Stuart Silvers - 2003 - Journal of Mind and Behavior 24 (2):197-228.
    Agent causation presupposes that actions are behaviors under the causal control of the agent’s mental states, its beliefs and desires. Here the idea of conscious causation in causal explanations of actions is examined, specifically, actions said to be the result of conscious efforts. Causal–functionalist theories of consciousness purport to be naturalistic accounts of the causal efficacy of consciousness. Flanagan argues that his causal–functionalist theory of consciousness satisfies naturalistic constraints on causation and that his causal efficacy thesis is (...)
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  27.  20
    (1 other version)Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision.Stephen M. Fleming & Matthias Michel - forthcoming - Behavioral and Brain Sciences:1-53.
    It is not obvious why we are conscious. Why can't all of our mental activities take place unconsciously? What is consciousness for? We aim to make progress on this question, focusing on conscious vision. We review evidence on the timescale of visual consciousness, showing that it is surprisingly slow: postdictive effects reveal windows of unconscious integration lasting up to 400 milliseconds. We argue that if consciousness is slow, it cannot be for online action-guidance. Instead, we propose that (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  28. Algorithmic AI Consciousness.Samuel Kimpton-Nye - manuscript
    I argue that the thoroughly algorithmic nature of current AI systems (such as LLMs) is no obstacle to their being conscious. To this end, I present a picture on which current AI systems comprise dispositional properties which realize categorical phenomenal properties where the latter, in turn, provide the identity conditions for their dispositional realizers. This mutual ontological dependence, or, symmetrical grounding, at the heart of the proposal yields a novel picture of (AI) consciousness that avoids epiphenomenalism and is more (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  29.  48
    Consciousness and the Cognitive Revolution: A True Worldview Paradigm Shift.Roger W. Sperry & Polly Henninger - 1994 - Anthropology of Consciousness 5 (3):3-7.
    Traditional scientific views of the conscious self and world we live in are challenged by an unprecedented outburst of emerging new paradigms, theories of consciousness, perceptions of reality, new sciences, new philosophies, epistemologies, and a host of other transformative approaches. This still expanding outburst can be traced, on both logical and chronologic grounds, not to chaos theory, ecology, the new physics, or dozens of other currently ascribed sources, but rather to the cognitive (consciousness) revolution that immediately preceded. These (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  30. A consciousness-based quantum objective collapse model.Elias Okon & Miguel Ángel Sebastián - 2020 - Synthese 197 (9):3947-3967.
    Ever since the early days of quantum mechanics it has been suggested that consciousness could be linked to the collapse of the wave function. However, no detailed account of such an interplay is usually provided. In this paper we present an objective collapse model where the collapse operator depends on integrated information, which has been argued to measure consciousness. By doing so, we construct an empirically adequate scheme in which superpositions of conscious states are dynamically suppressed. Unlike other (...)
    Direct download (9 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  31.  24
    A thing done well. A reply to Dr. Antti RevonsuosCan functional brain imaging discover consciousness in the brain?J. P. Keenan - 2001 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 (3):31-33.
    Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is a technique that may aid researchers in their attempts to elucidate the underlying brain functions involved in consciousness. By employing TMS along with other neuroimaging methods and case studies, researchers may be aided in addressing their various hypotheses. Employing the ‘brain as mobile’ analogy, it may be possible to determine the individual contributions of single elements of the brain without upsetting the overall balance.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  32.  90
    (1 other version)Understanding Consciousness.Max Velmans - 2000 - London: Routledge.
    The mysteries of consciousness have gripped the human imagination for over 2,500 years. At the dawn of the new millennium, Understanding Consciousness provides new solutions to some of the deepest puzzles surrounding its nature and function. Drawing on recent scientific discoveries, Max Velmans challenges conventional reductionist thought, providing an understanding of how consciousness relates to the brain and physical world that is neither dualist, nor reductionist. Understanding Consciousness will be of great interest to psychologists, philosophers, neuroscientists (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   80 citations  
  33. Consciousness, context, and know-how.Charles Wallis - 2008 - Synthese 160 (1):123 - 153.
    In this paper I criticize the most significant recent examples of the practical knowledge analysis of knowledge-how in the philosophical literature: David Carr [1979, Mind, 88, 394–409; 1981a, American Philosophical Quarterly, 18, 53–61; 1981b, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 15(1), 87–96] and Stanley & Williamson [2001, Journal of Philosophy, 98(8), 411–444]. I stress the importance of know-how in our contemporary understanding of the mind, and offer the beginnings of a treatment of know-how capable of providing insight in to the use (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   57 citations  
  34.  9
    Finding Consciousness in the Brain: A Neurocognitive Approach. Advances in Consciousness Research.Peter G. Grossenbacher (ed.) - 2001 - John Benjamins.
    How does the brain go about the business of being conscious? Though we cannot yet provide a complete answer, this book explains what is now known about the neural basis of human consciousness.The last decade has witnessed the dawn of an exciting new era of cognitive neuroscience. For example, combination of new imaging technologies and experimental study of attention has linked brain activity to specific psychological functions. The authors are leaders in psychology and neuroscience who have conducted original (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  35.  14
    (1 other version)The Function of Consciousness on Matter.Yu Guangyuan - 1981 - Contemporary Chinese Thought 12 (3):38-54.
    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 (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  36. Consciousness: Creeping Up on the Hard Problem.Jeffrey Alan Gray - 2004 - New York: Oxford University Press UK.
    How does conscious experience arise out of the functioning of the human brain? How is it related to the behaviour that it accompanies? How does the perceived world relate to the real world? Between them, these three questions constitute what is commonly known as the Hard Problem of consciousness. Despite vast knowledge of the relationship between brain and behaviour, and rapid advances in our knowledge of how brain activity correlates with conscious experience, the answers to all three questions remain (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   35 citations  
  37.  25
    The primary function of consciousness: Integration.Liad Mudrik - 2016 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39.
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  38. Consciousness and Reduction.Ausonio Marras - 2005 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 56 (2):335-361.
    A number of philosophers—among them Joseph Levine, David Chalmers, Frank Jackson and Jaegwon Kim—have claimed that there are conceptual grounds sufficient for ruling out the possibility of a reductive explanation of phenomenal consciousness. Their claim assumes a functional model of reduction (regarded by Kim as an alternative to the traditional Nagelian model) which requires an a priori entailment from the facts in the reduction base to the phenomena to be explained. The aim of this paper is to show that (...)
    Direct download (10 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   24 citations  
  39. Consciousness without biology: An argument from anticipating scientific progress.Leonard Dung - manuscript
    I develop the anticipatory argument for the view that it is nomologically possible that some non-biological creatures are phenomenally conscious, including conventional, silicon-based AI systems. This argument rests on the general idea that we should make our beliefs conform to the outcomes of an ideal scientific process and that such an ideal scientific process would attribute consciousness to some possible AI systems. This kind of ideal scientific process is an ideal application of the iterative natural kind (INK) strategy, according (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  40.  22
    Correction to: The Dead-Alive Physicist Experiment: A Case-Study Against the Hypothesis that Consciousness Causes the Wave-Function Collapse in the Quantum Mechanical Measurement Process.Carlo Roselli & Bruno Raffaele Stella - 2021 - Foundations of Physics 51 (2):1-2.
    A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-021-00451-y.
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  41.  60
    Consciousness and the superfunctionality claim.Craig DeLancey - 2012 - Philosophical Studies 161 (3):433-451.
    The superfunctionality claim is that phenomenal experiences are more than functional (objective, causal) relations. This is one of the most widely used but least attacked claims in the anti-physicalist literature on consciousness. Coupled with one form of structuralism, the view that science only explains functional relations, the superfunctionality claim entails that science will not explain phenomenal experience. The claim is therefore essential to many anti-physicalist arguments. I identify an open question argument for the superfunctionality claim that expresses an intuition (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  42.  73
    Consciousness in Contemporary Science.Anthony J. Marcel & Edoardo Bisiach - 1988 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Anthony J. Marcel & Edoardo Bisiach.
    The significance of consciousness in modern science is discussed by leading authorities from a variety of disciplines. Presenting a wide-ranging survey of current thinking on this important topic, the contributors address such issues as the status of different aspects of consciousness; the criteria for using the concept of consciousness and identifying instances of it; the basis of consciousness in functional brain organization; the relationship between different levels of theoretical discourse; and the functions of consciousness.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   218 citations  
  43. Does consciousness cause behaviour?Susan Pockett - 2004 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 (2):23-40.
  44.  31
    Consciousness and the Brain: A Scientific and Philosophical Inquiry.Gordon G. Globus, Grover Maxwell & Irwin Savodnik - 1976 - Plenum. Edited by Gordon G. Globus, Grover Maxwell & Irwin Savodnik.
    The relationship of consciousness to brain, which Schopenhauer grandly referred to as the "world knot," remains an unsolved problem within both philosophy and science. The central focus in what follows is the relevance of science---from psychoanalysis to neurophysiology and quantum physics-to the mind-brain puzzle. Many would argue that we have advanced little since the age of the Greek philosophers, and that the extraordinary accumulation of neuroscientific knowledge in this century has helped not at all. Increas- ingly, philosophers and scientists (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   15 citations  
  45. Consciousness.Benny Shanon - 1990 - Journal of Mind and Behavior 11 (2):137-51.
    The experience of consciousness is analyzed. First, a pre-theoretical characterization of the term "consciousness" is attempted. Second, the phenomenology of human consciousness is described. Specifically, consciousness is defined in terms of several patterns all of which consist of the coupling of pairs of opposites. Resonance between such opposites may be the key charactereristics of human consciousness. Third, the function of consciousness is considered. It is suggested that consciousness is functional in that it offers (...)
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   12 citations  
  46. Consciousness Without Attention.Carolyn Dicey Jennings - 2015 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1 (2):276--295.
    This paper explores whether consciousness can exist without attention. This is a hot topic in philosophy of mind and cognitive science due to the popularity of theories that hold attention to be necessary for consciousness. The discovery of a form of consciousness that exists without the influence of attention would require a change in the way that many global workspace theorists, for example, understand the role and function of consciousness. Against this understanding, at least three forms (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   19 citations  
  47.  85
    Lehrer on consciousness.Leopold Stubenberg - 2012 - Philosophical Studies 161 (1):131-140.
    Keith Lehrer distinguishes three kinds of questions about consciousness: scientific questions, metaphysical questions, and epistemological questions. He leaves the scientific questions to the scientists. He articulates and answers the peculiar epistemological questions posed by consciousness. And he boldly contends that no metaphysical questions about consciousness remain, once the epistemological questions have been answered. This is an astonishing claim. What happened to the metaphysical questions? Were they pseudo-questions? Were they epistemological questions masquerading as metaphysical ones? And isn't it (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  48.  11
    What are Conscious Sensations?Susan Pockett - 2023 - Journal of Neurophilosophy 2 (1).
    Existing theories about the nature of conscious sensations are discussed. The oldest classification system contrasts dualist theories (which say consciousness is an abstract entity) with monist theories (which say consciousness is a concrete entity). A more recent system contrasts process theories ("consciousness is a process, not a thing") with vehicle theories (consciousness is a property of one or more of the things associated with brain processes). The present paper first points out that processes are abstracta, which (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  49. Affective consciousness: Core emotional feelings in animals and humans.Jaak Panksepp - 1998 - Consciousness and Cognition 14 (1):30-80.
    The position advanced in this paper is that the bedrock of emotional feelings is contained within the evolved emotional action apparatus of mammalian brains. This dual-aspect monism approach to brain–mind functions, which asserts that emotional feelings may reflect the neurodynamics of brain systems that generate instinctual emotional behaviors, saves us from various conceptual conundrums. In coarse form, primary process affective consciousness seems to be fundamentally an unconditional “gift of nature” rather than an acquired skill, even though those systems (...)
    Direct download (6 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   132 citations  
  50. Connecting Conscious and Unconscious Processing.Axel Cleeremans - 2014 - Cognitive Science 38 (6):1286-1315.
    Consciousness remains a mystery—“a phenomenon that people do not know how to think about—yet” (Dennett, , p. 21). Here, I consider how the connectionist perspective on information processing may help us progress toward the goal of understanding the computational principles through which conscious and unconscious processing differ. I begin by delineating the conceptual challenges associated with classical approaches to cognition insofar as understanding unconscious information processing is concerned, and to highlight several contrasting computational principles that are constitutive of the (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   10 citations  
1 — 50 / 951