Phenomenal Consciousness and Emergence: Eliminating the Explanatory Gap [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The role of emergence in the creation of consciousness has been debated for over a century, but it remains unresolved. In particular there is controversy over the claim that a “strong” or radical form of emergence is required to explain phenomenal ...
Jon Mallatt, Todd E Feinberg
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Subjectivity “Demystified”: Neurobiology, Evolution, and the Explanatory Gap [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 While life in general can be explained by the mechanisms of physics, chemistry, and biology, to many scientists and philosophers, it appears that when it comes to explaining consciousness, there is what the philosopher Joseph Levine called an ...
Jon Mallatt, Todd E Feinberg
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Electromagnetism’s Bridge Across the Explanatory Gap: How a Neuroscience/Physics Collaboration Delivers Explanation Into All Theories of Consciousness [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 A productive, informative three decades of correlates of phenomenal consciousness (P-Consciousness) have delivered valuable knowledge while simultaneously locating us in a unique and unprecedented explanatory cul-de-sac.
Colin G. Hales, Marissa Ericson
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How to explain the German East–West divide in support of a populist radical right party (AfD): mapping socioeconomic, psychological, and cultural explanatory factors from a demand-side, voter-level perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyIntroductionAlthough the success of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is nationwide, the party received twice as many votes in East compared to West Germany in recent elections.
Hermann Siebel +2 more
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Neuro-cognitive multilevel causal modeling: A framework that bridges the explanatory gap between neuronal activity and cognition. [PDF]
PLoS Computational BiologyExplaining how neuronal activity gives rise to cognition arguably remains the most significant challenge in cognitive neuroscience. We introduce neuro-cognitive multilevel causal modeling (NC-MCM), a framework that bridges the explanatory gap between ...
Moritz Grosse-Wentrup +3 more
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Unveiling the Gaps: Machine Learning Models for Unmeasured Ions [PDF]
DiagnosticsBackground: Unmeasured ions (UIs) contribute significantly to acid–base disturbances in critically ill patients, yet the optimal parameter for their estimation remains uncertain.
Furkan Tontu, Zafer Çukurova
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Explaining Ṣadrā’s Response to Joseph Levine’s Explanatory Gap Riddle Based on the Doctrine of Abstraction of Perception [PDF]
آموزههای فلسفه اسلامي, 2021 Considering Ṣadrā’s view on the abstraction of perception and the arguments he has put forward, a reasoned answer to the riddle of the explanatory gap is provided. Ṣadrā’s explanation of perception and the soul is included in the dualistic interpretation,
Mahdi Karimi, Ahmad Vaezi
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What Is Consciousness? Integrated Information vs. Inference
Entropy, 2021 Any successful naturalistic account of consciousness must state what consciousness is, in terms that are compatible with the rest of our naturalistic descriptions of the world. Integrated Information Theory represents a pioneering attempt to do just this.
James E. Cooke
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Neurological Impairment and Literary Empowerment in Nicole Krauss’s Man Walks into a Room
European Journal of American Studies, 2021 In Man Walks into a Room, a neuronovel staging an amnesiac, Nicole Krauss challenges the memory-identity equation. While she draws on neuroscience, she also writes against it, as she emphasizes the explanatory gap and the problem of qualia. To resist the
Pascale Antolin
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Entropy, 2020 Herein we are not interested in merely using dynamical systems theory, graph theory, information theory, etc., to model the relationship between brain dynamics and networks, and various states and degrees of conscious processes.
Michael Silberstein, William Stuckey
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