Theoria, Beograd
2025
Dusan Simic
The predictive processing theory (PPT) is one of the most influential contemporary approaches in cognitive science, with the ambition not only to explain perception and behavior but also to account for the fundamental properties of consciousness. Grounded in Bayesian inference PPT portrays the brain as a hierarchically organized system that continuously generates and updates predictions about...
Theoria, Beograd
2024
Aleksandar Risteski
In this paper I will address the specifics of Peirce?s concept of qualia. Peirce is the first philosopher to ever use the term qualia as philosophical, but his understanding of it differs considerably from the contemporary philosophy of mind. There are certain tendencies to present Peirce in this regard as a forerunner of contemporary debates. Although such an interpretation is not unfounded, I...
Theoria, Beograd
2024
Janko Nešić
The mind-body problem has posed the questions: can we defend mental causation, or is there causal relevance of mental qua mental over and above physical in human behaviour? This would mean that conscious experience is not a physical phenomenon, though it has causal relevance in the world. The problem is understanding how something non-physical, mental or phenomenal could be causally relevant in...
Theoria, Beograd
2023
Anastasija Filipović
Objects and events from the outside world are represented in our consciousness through the structure of time. Temporality and consciousness are closely related phenomena and in this paper I intend to explore their relationship by referring to the philosophy of Edmund Husserl. I will try to provide an adequate contemporary interpretation of Husserl?s understanding of temporality, as well as the...
Theoria, Beograd
2018
Janko Nešić
1 citation
I investigate the status of subjectivity in Integrated Information Theory. This leads me to examine if Integrated Information Theory can answer the hard problem of consciousness. On itself, Integrated Information Theory does not seem to constitute an answer to the hard problem, but could be combined with panpsychism to yield a more satisfying theory of consciousness. I will show, that even if...
Theoria, Beograd
2009
Iva Draskic-Vicanovic
This article presents an analysis of David Hume's epistemological position faced with explanatory gap problem. What did Hume do? Did he resolve the explanatory gap problem or made it insurmountable? The text falls into two main parts: In the first the author tries to show that Hume's attempt to surmount explanatory gap by his analysis of reason's functions was completely unsuccessful. In the...
Theoria, Beograd
2006
Sanela Ristic
The main purpose of this article is to face the following dilemma: either qualia (phenomenological or qualitative features of consciousness) constitute a permanent and irremovable barrier to the possibility of reductive explanation of phenomenal consciousness, or there are possibility of speaking about the subjective consciousness in the conceptual frame of one successful science. In order to...