This article addresses David Chalmers's hard problem of consciousness by asking why information processing is accompanied by a subjective 'what it is like'. Its point of departure is the distinction between intelligence and phenomenal consciousness: the achievements of contemporary artificial intelligence show that reasoning, planning, language, and the accurate description of emotions do not...
Thinking is a multifaceted process that encompasses logical, inductive, deductive, and abductive reasoning, as well as planning, recalling past events and previous thoughts, imagining what may or may not happen, and experiencing and feeling affective states. The task of psychology is to explain what these thoughts are. How can physiological, biophysical, and neuronal processes in our bodies and...
Presented here is a novel graphical, structural, and functional model of the embodied mind. Despite strictly adhering to a physicalistic and reductionist approach, this model successfully resolves the apparent contradiction between the thesis regarding the causal closure of the physical realm and the widely held common-sense belief that the mental realm can influence physical behavior....