Consciousness and its meaning, ontologically
Xinyan Zhang
September 10, 2023 preprint DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/e2qh7 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Citations | 3 |
| Key points | Argues that consciousness and its meaning can only be defined and explained within an ontological system. Proposes such a system with matter, energy, and life as components, each defined as changes, and contends that systematic relations between matter and energy plus semantic relations among components may explain what, how, why, where, when, and what consciousness means. |
Abstract
The author argues that consciousness and its meaning may only be defined and explained within an ontological system. Such a system is proposed in this article, with matter, energy, and life as its components, and with all its components defined as changes. The systematic relations between matter and energy and the semantic relations among all its components together may define and explain what and how consciousness is, why there is consciousness, where and when it may occur, and what is its significance or meaning.
Citations in the library
Cites 11
- An information integration theory of consciousness BMC Neuroscience November 2, 2004
- Consciousness as Integrated Information: a Provisional Manifesto Biological Bulletin December 1, 2008
- Theories of consciousness. Nature Reviews Neuroscience July 1, 2022
- Biology of Consciousness Frontiers in Psychology 2011
- Can there be a synergistic core emerging in the brain hierarchy to control neural activity by downward causation? August 23, 2023
and 6 more in the library