2026
Shigeru Taguchi
This paper introduces phenomenology as a mode of thinking grounded in appearance and experience, focusing on Husserl’s foundational ideas and their broader philosophical implications. The phenomenological framework is built upon intentionality and constitution. Intentionality is the structured relation where diverse experiences converge to form a coherent appearance. Constitution describes how...
July 15, 2023
Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Hayato Saigo, Steven Phillips et al.
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主観意識と客観的な物質としての脳は、全く異なる世界に属すのだろうか? 意識の中身であるクオリアと脳はいかに関係しているのか? 意識と脳の問題は、科学的な興味に留まらず、現実社会における人の気持ちの理解の困難に伴う問題にも直接関わる。意識のクオリアは、客観的な言語で定義することすら難しいため、従来の意識研究では、知覚刺激を固定し、経験を「見えた・見えない」という二値的な判断に還元し、その神経相関の探求を試みた。近年、我々は視覚クオリア間の類似度を大規模に計測することでクオリアの構造を特徴づけ、その神経相関とその情報構造を明らかにする新パラダイムを確立した。本領域は、現象学・発達・構成論を加え、知覚と感情クオリアに集中することで、クオリア構造学を創成する。本領域の成果は、他者意識の理解や、動物や人工物の意識理解など、一般社会へも広く還元されうる答えを生み出す新融合領域の創成である。
July 15, 2023
Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Hayato Saigo, Steven Phillips et al.
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Summary: Establishing Qualia Structure Paradigm.?Do subjective conscious experience and objective brain matters belong to completely different worlds? How are qualia, the contents of consciousness, related to the brain? The question of consciousness and the brain is not only of scientific interest, but it is also directly related to the problems associated with difficulties in understanding...
Frontiers in Psychology
2023
Shigeru Taguchi, Hayato Saigo
4 citations
Human consciousness is characterized by constant transitions in time. On the other hand, what is consciously experienced always possesses the temporal feature of "now." In consciousness, "now" constantly holds different contents, yet it remains "now" no matter how far it goes. This duality is thematized in Husserlian phenomenology as "the standing-streaming now." Although this phrase appears...
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March 24, 2021
Lehel Balogh, Masaru Tanaka, Nóra Török et al.
22 citations
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Psychotherapy is a comprehensive biological treatment modifying complex underlying cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and regulatory responses in the brain, leading patients with mental illness to a new interpretation of the sense of self and others. Psychotherapy is an art of science integrated with psychology and/or philosophy. Neurological science studies the neurological basis of cognition,...
Philosophies
April 3, 2019
Tom Froese, Shigeru Taguchi
44 citations
In this essay we critically evaluate the progress that has been made in solving the problem of meaning in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. We remain skeptical about solutions based on deep neural networks and cognitive robotics, which in our opinion do not fundamentally address the problem. We agree with the enactive approach to cognitive science that things appear as intrinsically...
The Brain & Neural Networks
September 5, 2018
Masatoshi Yoshida, Shigeru Taguchi
2 citations
フリストンの自由エネルギー原理では，外界に関する生成モデルと現在の認識から計算される変分自由エネルギーを最小化するために，1) 脳状態を変えることによって正しい認識に至る過程（perceptual inference）と2) 行動によって感覚入力を変えることによって曖昧さの低い認識に至る過程（active...
Neurosciences research
June 1, 2016
Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Shigeru Taguchi, Hayato Saigo
One of the most mysterious phenomena in science is the nature of conscious experience. Due to its subjective nature, a reductionist approach is having a hard time in addressing some fundamental questions about consciousness. These questions are squarely and quantitatively tackled by a recently developed theoretical framework, called integrated information theory (IIT) of consciousness. In...
Shigeru Taguchi
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Abstract Theories of consciousness are judged against ’the consciousness we know,’ our only reference point, yet this concept is taken for granted, though ambiguous. This paper argues that our everyday understanding of consciousness gives rise to its objectification, or quasi-substantialization, in ways so natural that they go unnoticed: consciousness comes to be treated as something one either...