Does the Brain Create the Mind?
Oxford University Press eBooks March 10, 2010 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195340716.003.0012 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Proposes that consciousness and mental phenomena should be understood as categories of "Ultra-Information," a concept that includes ordinary information, unknown physical processes, and consciousness, offering a speculative framework for approaching the hard problem of consciousness. |
Abstract
This chapter takes a highly speculative approach in which the hard problem of consciousness is approached with questions about a category beyond ordinary information; that is, Ultra-Information, defined broadly to include ordinary information, unknown physical processes, and consciousness. Thoughts, emotions, self-awareness, memory, and the contents of the unconscious are, by definition, categories of Ultra-Information, whether or not these mental processes also involve ordinary information.