The Elephant in the Mirror: Bridging the Brain's Explanatory Gap of Consciousness.
Jasmine A Berry, Alice C Parker
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience January 6, 2017 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2016.00108 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Commentary Peer reviewed |
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| Topics | Philosophy of mind |
| Keywords | Consciousness Self-recognition Self-awareness Machine intelligence |
| Key points | Argues that forthcoming brain augmentation studies should insistently include investigations of the potential effects of augmentation on self-awareness and consciousness, contending that progress beyond sensory substitution requires better understanding of these phenomena even if the "hard" problem of consciousness remains elusive. |
Abstract
The successes of the artificial retina and cochlea have lent encouragement to researchers in the general field of brain augmentation (Gantz et al. , 2005; Dagnelie, 2012). However, in order for brain augmentation to progress beyond conventional sensory substitution to comprehensive augmentation of the human brain, we believe a better understanding of self-awareness and consciousness must be obtained, even if the “hard” problem of consciousness (Chalmers, 2007) remains elusive. Here we propose that forthcoming brain augmentation studies should insistently include investigations of its potential effects on self-awareness and consciousness.
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