Philosophy of Science and Technology
June 16, 2026
Aleksandr V. Katunin
This article analyzes the relationship and correlation between the cognitive unconscious, phenomenal consciousness, and access consciousness. N. Blok’s distinction between phenomenal consciousness (subjective experience, “what it’s like to be”) and access consciousness (information available for behavioral control and verbal reporting) is used as a theoretical framework. This approach is...
Philosophy of Science and Technology
June 16, 2026
Mikhail A. Sushchin
The article considers the possibility of extended artificial intelligence, which draws on parallels between the alleged cases of human cognitive extension according to the extended mind thesis and large language models capable of augmenting their responses on the basis of information from external sources. Since the idea of extended AI draws its inspiration from the hypothesis of A. Clark and...
Philosophy of Science and Technology
December 12, 2025
Dmitry Ivanov
The paper presents a reconstruction of various approaches to understanding such an element of philosophical methodology as conceivability. From the point of view of such a section of the theory of knowledge as modal epistemology, this method is interesting because it allows us to acquire knowledge about the nature of various objects, expressed by modal statements. In other words, this...
Philosophy of Science and Technology
December 12, 2025
Igor F. Mikhailov
The article is dedicated to the probabilistic-predictive theory of consciousness, which examines the relationship between cognitive processes and the mechanism of predicting the surrounding environment. It focuses on the concept that living systems operate as probabilistic models, minimizing prediction errors and optimizing their interaction with the surrounding world. A significant part of the...
Philosophy of Science and Technology
January 19, 2025
M. Atakuev
The article is focused on ontological issues related to inner-body sensations in the context of cognitive sciences and modern philosophy of mind. Initially, the concept of interoception was limited to physiological processes and reactions associated with internal organs. Nevertheless, further developments in cognitive science led to a reassessment of the role of bodily characteristics in...
Philosophy of Science and Technology
October 23, 2024
Aleksandr Grigoriev
The article provides a brief overview of various points of view on the possibility of embodying artificial consciousness. Although Ned Block’s answer to the question of the possibility of consciousness in machines is rather negative, at first glance, it seems that his concept of the division of consciousness into access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness could help resolve this problem...
Philosophy of Science and Technology
October 23, 2024
Nicholas Humphrey
The lecturer puts forward a thesis according to which an evolutionist approach to consciousness can solve its “hard problem” with radical implications for understanding of animal sentience. Taking off from his discovery of blindsight – insentient vision – after removal of the visual cortex in a monkey, named Helen, Humphrey argues that “phenomenal consciousness” is a relatively late...
Philosophy of Science and Technology
June 1, 2024
Julia Morkina
1 citation
The paper shows that the reasons for the contradictions existing in the philosophy of artificial intelligence (AI) are rooted in the lack of general philosophical foundations reflection. Among such foundations are the concepts of consciousness and “other consciousness”. Various approaches to these problems have been analyzed. A logical and methodological reconstruction of the of different...
Philosophy of Science and Technology
2022
V. Lektorsky, Ekaterina A. Alekseeva, N. Emelyanova et al.
7 citations
The article contains the papers of the “round table” discussion that was held at the Department of Philosophy of the State Academic University for the Humanities on October 30th 2020. The “round table” was dedicated to the 70-years anniversary of the publication of Alan Turing’s famous paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (1950). The speakers have discussed the role of the artificial...
Philosophy of Science and Technology
2022
T. Rockmore
1 citation
The article analyses V.A. Lektorsky’s views on the debate on constructivism and realism. On the one hand, it considers the history of development of constructivism and realism as philosophical positions embedded in the evolution of European philosophical tradition. On the other hand, the changes in V.A. Lectorsky’s views on constructivism and realism are traced from dialectical materialism to...
Philosophy of Science and Technology
July 4, 2021
Андрей Андреевич Гусев
The article deals with the problem of naturalistic explanation of an essential feature of all conscious mental states – the phenomenal character. The conception of qualia realism can be considered as one of the options for a non-naturalistic explanation of this phenomenon. Nevertheless, it is believed that the phenomenal character of experience can be explained in terms of representational...
Philosophy of Science and Technology
2020
T.O. Provolovich
The article deals with a methodological analysis of S. Dehaene’s theory of the global neural workspace. The French neuroscientist criticizes philosophical theories of consciousness because they do not use experimentally confirmed data. Also, he rejects such concepts of consciousness as wakefulness and attention, since they primarily describe the work of the unconscious, and not consciousness....