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S M Nazmuz Sakib
In the ever-evolving landscape of psychology, the exploration of advanced theories is akin to navigating uncharted waters. Among these theories, the extended mind theory emerges as a beacon, illuminating the path towards a deeper comprehension of human cognition, consciousness, and the intricate interplay between the mind and the body. This chapter embarks on a multifaceted journey, guided by...
MohammadHossein Manuel Haqiqatkhah
The past century has seen a resurgence of interest in the study of consciousness among scholars of various fields, from philosophy to psychology and neuroscience. Since the birth of Artificial Intelligence in the 1950s, the study of consciousness in machines has received an increasing amount of attention in computer science that gave rise to the new field of machine consciousness (MC)....
Adam Safron preprint
The Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework (FEP-AI) begins with the understanding that persisting systems must regulate environmental exchanges and prevent entropic accumulation. In FEP-AI, minds and brains are predictive controllers for autonomous systems, where action-driven perception is realized as probabilistic inference. Integrated Information Theory (IIT) begins with...
Jonathan Jared Wilson preprint
The quest to create artificial consciousness has long been a central challenge in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). While significant progress has been made in developing AI systems that can perform complex tasks and exhibit intelligent behavior, the question of whether these systems can truly be considered conscious remains open. In this paper, I present a novel approach to...
Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is an influential framework for understanding the link between the brain’s neural structure and consciousness. However, based on arguments that purely structural explanations, such as IIT, cannot address the hard problem of consciousness, I supplement IIT with an intrinsic element that includes properties extending beyond the purely structural, and which,...
Yuqi Wang preprint
The Electron Observer Theory (EOT) posits each electron serves as an individual observer and describes the relationships among the observer, the brain, and the observable. By reconciling neural correlates of consciousness with quantum mechanics, EOT explains how electrons within a single neuron can receive conscious information from the brain and affect the body’s macroscopic behavior. It also...
Lara Maister, Anna Ciaunica preprint
Depersonalization is a condition that makes people feel detached from one’s self, body and others. The representation of one’s own face is a salient bodily aspect of self-awareness and identity, and empirical evidence suggests that individuals with depersonalization disorder experience disrupted perception of their faces when viewing themselves in photographs or in the mirror, which has been...
Leandro Castelluccio preprint
The enigma of consciousness, particularly the subjective and ineffable nature of qualia (our inner conscious experience), poses one of the most challenging puzzles in contemporary philosophy and cognitive science—the "hard problem". Grounded in interdisciplinary perspectives from philosophy of mind and neuroscience, this article introduces a novel theoretical framework aimed at elucidating the...
Keith Wiley preprint
A common interpretation of wakeful, nondestructive mind uploading is that the person with the postoperative original body exclusively persists the preoperative identity and that the person with the upload's body is some sort of identity copy. A frequent argument supporting this claim is that the preoperative person's stream of consciousness attaches exclusively to the postoperative person with...
This chapter presents a methodological approach to volitional consciousness for cognitive neuroscience based on studying the voluntary self-generation and self-regulation of mental states in meditation. Called contemplative neuroscience, this approach views attention, awareness, and emotion regulation as flexible and trainable skills, and works with experimental participants who have undergone...