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 ...
Todd E. Feinberg, Jon Mallatt
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The Language of Colour: Neurology and the Ineffable [PDF]
Biolinguistics, 2012 It is often claimed, following Joseph Levine, that there is an ‘explanatory gap’ between ordinary physical facts and the way we perceive things, so that it is impossible to explain, among other things, why colours actually look the way they do.
Nicholas Unwin
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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 ...
Todd E. Feinberg, Jon Mallatt
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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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Teacher or Artificial Intelligence? The Effect of Decision-Making Agent on Junior High School Students’ Decision Acceptance: A Moderated Mediation Model [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesArtificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in educational decision-making. This raises important questions about how students perceive and accept outcomes from non-human agents.
Zhen Zhang, Siyu Fan, Chunhui Qi
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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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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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Explanatory gaps in evolutionary theory
Biology and PhilosophyAbstractProponents of the extended evolutionary synthesis have argued that there are explanatory gaps in evolutionary biology that cannot be bridged by standard evolutionary theory. In this paper, we consider what sort of explanatory gaps they are referring to.
Grant Ramsey +2 more
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Evaluating the biological relevance of the relativistic theory of consciousness [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyWolfgang Kromer
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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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