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Alexander Boldachev

2 papers in the library · publishing 2015-2019

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The Hard Terminological Problem of Consciousness

Studia Humana December 1, 2019 Alexander Boldachev

Abstract This article demonstrates that certain issues of philosophy of mind can only be explained via strict observance of the logical law of identity, that is, use of the term “consciousness” in only one meaning. Based on the understanding of consciousness as space in which objects distinguished by the subject are represented, this article considers problems such as the fixation of the...

The Downward Causality and the Hard Problem of Consciousness or Why Computer Programs Do not Work in the Dark

Studia Humana January 31, 2015 Alexander Boldachev

Abstract Any low-level processes, the sequence of chemical interactions in a living cell, muscle cellular activity, processor commands or neuron interaction, is possible only if there is a downward causality, only due to uniting and controlling power of the highest level. Therefore, there is no special “hard problem of consciousness”, i.e. the problem of relation of ostensibly purely biological...