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Francis Erdman

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Recursive Field Functionalism: Consciousness and Continuity

Francis Erdman

This paper develops Recursive Field Functionalism, a modest extension of Dennettian functionalism and Humphrey’s recursive account of consciousness. Building on an earlier homotopic model of mental content, it argues that percepts, concepts, and beliefs are not separate mental substances but different degrees of stabilization within a single informational hierarchy. Consciousness, on this view,...