6 papers in the library · 4 citations · publishing 2010
December 31, 2010 Rex Welshon 4 citations
Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems. Immediately known, familiar and obvious, consciousness is also baffling, opaque and strange. This introduction to the problems posed by consciousness discusses the most important work of cognitive science, neurophysiology and philosophy of mind of recent years and presents an up to date...
December 31, 2010 Rex Welshon
The previous chapters show that there are systematic correlations between conscious processes, events, states and properties and neural events, states, processes and properties and that these correlations are to varying degrees localized to particular cortical regions. The ever-growing mountains of evidence for such localized systematic covariations are grist for the reductionist's mill,...
December 31, 2010 Rex Welshon
The rush to image the neural correlates of conscious events can look more than a little like high-tech phrenology (Uttal 2001). Although feeling bumps on the skull and producing cranial maps has been replaced by a lot of coloured pictures and intracranial neural maps, the drive to reduce consciousness to something small remains the same. Still, it would be surprising were there nothing at all...
December 31, 2010 Rex Welshon
Our topics are consciousness, its properties, what neuroscience has to say about them, and whether what neuroscience has to say about them is enough to warrant reducing conscious properties and events to neural assemblies, their activities and their properties. A psychological state, process, or event is conscious in the full sense of the term whenever it is intentionally structured,...
December 31, 2010 Rex Welshon
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the brain and nervous system. It is a large field and immediately splits into four subfields. Neuroanatomy is the scientific study of the form and structure of the brain and nervous system. Neurophysiology is the scientific study of the physical and biochemical processes of the brain and nervous system. Neuropsychology is the scientific study of the...
December 31, 2010 Rex Welshon
Grant that intentional content, subjective perspectivity and qualitative character supervene on and covary with neural events and neural properties, and grant that the latter are core and even differential realizers of the former. Grant that nothing much less complex than widespread activity in the thalamocortical system is implicated as the neural realizer of any conscious property. Grant all...