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The Explanatory Gap: 30 Years after
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014 AbstractThirty years ago, in a now classic paper, Joseph Levine (1983) explicitly outlined the difficulties physicalism encounters when confronting the qualitative aspect of mental states. In the present article, I wish to present the main directions materialists took in responding to these difficulties, arguing that the most popular contemporary ...
Marius M. Stanciu
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How to Explain the Explanatory Gap
Dialectica, 2013 I construct a tempting anti-physicalist argument, which sharpens an explanatory gap argument suggested by David Chalmers and Frank Jackson. The argument relies crucially on the premise that there is a deep epistemic asymmetry (which may be identified with the explanatory gap) between phenomenal truths and ordinary macroscopic truths.
Neil Mehta
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Phenomenal Concepts and the Explanatory Gap [PDF]
, 2007 Abstract Philosophers have reacted in different ways to the apparent explanatory gap between physical processes and consciousness. Some deny that any explanatory gap exists at all. Some hold that there is an explanatory gap for now, but that it will eventually be closed.
D. Chalmers
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Transformer-Based Models for Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting with Explanatory Variables
MathematicsAccurate demand forecasting is essential for retail operations as it directly impacts supply chain efficiency, inventory management, and financial performance. However, forecasting retail time series presents significant challenges due to their irregular
Ricardo Caetano +2 more
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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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Moral Uncertainty in Technomoral Change: Bridging the Explanatory Gap
Perspectives in Science, 2022 This paper explores the role of moral uncertainty in explaining the morally disruptive character of new technologies. We argue that existing accounts of technomoral change do not fully explain its disruptiveness.
Philip J. Nickel +2 more
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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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A Skeptical View on the Physics-Consciousness Explanatory Gap
Axiomathes, 2021 The epistemological chasm between how we (implicitly and subjectively) perceive or imagine the actual world and how we (explicitly and “objectively”) think of its underlying entities has motivated perhaps the most disconcerting impasse in human thought ...
M. Martinez-Saito
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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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Closing (or at Least Narrowing) the Explanatory Gap
Armstrong's Materialist Theory of Mind, 2021 This chapter revisits the issue of the explanatory gap that is supposed to open when considering identity statements between physical and mental phenomena. It is argued that the question asked in the original formulation of the explanatory gap was this: ‘
Katalin Farkas
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