3 papers in the library · publishing 2002-2008
July 25, 2008 M. Bitbol
There are two versions of the putative connection between consciousness and the measurement problem of quantum mechanics : consciousness as the cause of state vector reduction, and state vector reduction as the physical basis of consciousness. In this article, these controversial ideas are neither accepted uncritically, nor rejected from the outset in the name of some prejudice about objective...
2006 M. Bitbol
A Balanced Science of Consciousness: Francisco Varela's Neurophe- nomenology. Francisco Varela's neurophenomenological research program is still ahead of us. It therefore needs some further philosophical reflections in order to be- come fully understood, and to avoid mixing it up with other views. Neurophenome- nology shares so many features with the mind-brain identity theory that it has some-...
June 1, 2002 M. Bitbol
When he formulated the program of neurophenomenology, Francisco Varela suggested a balanced methodological dissolution of the “hard problem” of consciousness. I show that his dissolution is a paradigm which imposes itself onto seemingly opposite views, including materialist approaches. I also point out that Varela's revolutionary epistemological ideas are gaining wider acceptance as a side...