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November 18, 2009 Anderson Weekes
Consciousness and causation are topics that intersect in two obvious ways.We can ask what the cause of consciousness is and we can ask how we become conscious of causation.Both questions take us back to seminal fi gures in the history of modern philosophy and both questions continue to be the subject of intense debate.Early in the twentieth century, Alfred North Whitehead proposed a radical...
Brain and Cognition November 2009 C U M Smith
This is the second part of a review of the work of quantum physicists on the 'hard part' of the problem of mind. After an introduction which sets the scene and a brief review of contemporary work on the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) the work of four prominent modern investigators is examined: J.C. Eccles/Friedrich Beck; Henry Stapp; Stuart Hameroff/Roger Penrose; David Bohm. With the...
Lwati A Journal of Contemporary Research October 8, 2009 KA Ojong
in modern science that is causing waves in the philosophy of mind. Can there be artificial minds? Can machines be made to think? Can machines be conscious? Is it possible for artificial intelligence to replace the human brain? These and similar questions pervade most discussions and philosophical polemics on the issue of artificial intelligence. While some analysts think that in a very...
Oxford University Press eBooks September 10, 2009 Dan Arnold 2 citations
This chapter draws connections between the idea of svasamvitti or svasamvedana (reflexive awareness, apperception), a phenomenon very controversial in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy from the 6th through the 19th centuries, and the idea of methodological solipsism in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, made popular by Fodor in the late 20th century. It explores many...
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2009 Charles D. Laughlin, C. Jason Throop 45 citations
ABSTRACTMost of us would agree that the world of our experience is different than the extramental reality of which we are a part. Indeed, the evidence pertaining to cultural cosmologies around the globe suggests that virtually all peoples recognize this distinction—hence the focus upon the “hidden” forces behind everyday events. That said, the struggle to comprehend the relationship between our...
arXiv Preprint Archive July 15, 2009 Stuart Kauffman preprint
Since Descartes' dualism, with his res extensa and res cogitans, six fundamental problems in the philosophy and natural history of mind are these: 1. how does mind act on matter? 2. If mind does not act on matter is mind a mere epiphenomenon? 3. What might be the source of free will? 4. What might be the source of a responsible free will? 5. Why might it have been selectively advantageous to...
International Journal of Machine Consciousness May 19, 2009 Ron Chrisley 34 citations
The term "synthetic phenomenology" refers to: 1) any attempt to characterize the phenomenal states possessed, or modeled by, an artefact (such as a robot); or 2) any attempt to use an artefact to help specify phenomenal states (independently of whether such states are possessed by a naturally conscious being or an artefact). The notion of synthetic phenomenology is clarified, and distinguished...
Der Nervenarzt May 2009 M Bürgy
The accomplishments of Heidelberg psychopathology and their continued development are illustrated using the example of the concept of psychosis. Jaspers founded the Heidelberg school by methodologically collating the psychiatric knowledge of his time in a structured fashion and in doing so laid the foundation for modern nosology. While, however, ICD and DSM classifications tend to be modelled...
Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology May 1, 2009 Surya Kanta Maharana 3 citations
The philosophical investigation of consciousness has a long-standing history in both Indian and Western thought. The conceptual models and analyses that have emerged in one cultural framework may be profitably reviewed in the light of another. In this context, a study of the notion of consciousness in the transcendental phenomenology of Edmund Husserl is not only important as a focus on a...
Science April 23, 2009 Edward J. Neafsey 2 citations
In the letter “Neuroscience and the soul” (27 February, p. 1168), M. J. Farah and N. Murphy state that eventually neuroscience and the material system it describes may be able to explain all facets of being human. This idea strikes me as a somewhat naïve and simple faith in scientific progress rather than an accurate assessment of current thinking on this issue. Some years ago, the philosopher...