Cambridge University Press eBooks
June 1, 2010
Naomi Eilan, Anthony O’Hear
9 citations
A representative expression of current thinking on the ‘problem of consciousness’ runs as follows. There is one, impenetrably hard problem; and a host of soluble, and in this sense easy problems. The hard problem is: how could a physical system yield subjective states? How could there be something it is like to be a physical system? This problem corresponds to a concept of consciousness...
International Journal of Machine Consciousness
June 1, 2010
Aaron Sloman
81 citations
This paper is an attempt to summarise and justify critical comments I have been making over several decades about research on consciousness by philosophers, scientists and engineers. This includes (a) explaining why the concept of “phenomenal consciousness” (P-C), in the sense defined by Ned Block, is semantically flawed and unsuitable as a target for scientific research or machine modelling,...
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
June 1, 2010
Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse, Athena Demertzi, Manuel Schabus et al.
460 citations
Evidence from functional neuroimaging studies on resting state suggests that there are two distinct anticorrelated cortical systems that mediate conscious awareness: an "extrinsic" system that encompasses lateral fronto-parietal areas and has been linked with processes of external input (external awareness), and an "intrinsic" system which encompasses mainly medial brain areas and has been...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
May 31, 2010
Aslihan Selimbeyoglu, Josef Parvizi
In this review, we summarize the subjective experiential phenomena and behavioral changes that are caused by electrical stimulation of the cerebral cortex or subcortical nuclei in awake and conscious human subjects. Our comprehensive review contains a detailed summary of the data obtained from electrical brain stimulation (EBS) in humans in the last 100 years. Findings from the EBS studies may...
Brain structure & function
May 29, 2010
Markus Ullsperger, Helga A Harsay, Jan R Wessel et al.
To detect erroneous action outcomes is necessary for flexible adjustments and therefore a prerequisite of adaptive, goal-directed behavior. While performance monitoring has been studied intensively over two decades and a vast amount of knowledge on its functional neuroanatomy has been gathered, much less is known about conscious error perception, often referred to as error awareness. Here, we...
NeuroQuantology
May 26, 2010
Valerie L. Laws, Elaine K. Perry
9 citations
Quantum mechanics arose to explain 'wobbles' in predicted effects of Newtonian physics, such as the stability of electron orbitals. Similarly, scientifically verified phenomena in the field of neuroscience which contradict known theories of brain function, could give weight and credibility to neuroquantology, stimulating new research and discovery. The existence of consciousness outside the...
Philosophical Studies
May 22, 2010
Jonathan Eric Dorsey
18 citations
Is physicalism compatible with either panpsychism or so-called “fundamental mentality”? Minimal physicalism, I contend, is compatible with both. We should therefore jettison the “No Fundamental Mentality” constraint, a proposed constraint on the definition of “the physical”, not to mention the false limits it places on physicalist theories of mind.
Human & Experimental Toxicology
May 20, 2010
Pinchas Halpern, Jenny Moskovich, Beni Avrahami et al.
54 citations
Methods: We conducted a prospective, representative-sample nationwide study on morbidity related to 3,4, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA; ‘ecstasy’) as determined from admissions to 5 geographically representative emergency departments (EDs) and from data from the poison information center (PIC). MDMArelated ED admissions were analyzed over a 7-month period and the records of all PIC calls...
Neuroethics
May 14, 2010
Felicitas Kraemer
56 citations
This article will examine how the notion of emotional authenticity is intertwined with the notions of naturalness and artificiality in the context of the recent debates about 'neuro-enhancement' and 'neuro-psychopharmacology.' In the philosophy of mind, the concept of authenticity plays a key role in the discussion of the emotions. There is a widely held intuition that an artificial means will...
May 7, 2010
William Fish
Over the course of this book, we will be thinking philosophically about our capacity for sense perception-our capacity to perceive the world by means of our sense organs.1 If one is of a scientific bent, one might wonder just what the role of philosophical theorizing about perception is: isn’t empirical science in the process of discovering what the nature of a visual experience is and what is...