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Cross-species neuroscience: closing the explanatory gap. [PDF]
Neuroscience has seen substantial development in non-invasive methods available for investigating the living human brain. However, these tools are limited to coarse macroscopic measures of neural activity that aggregate the diverse responses of thousands of cells.
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The Structure and Dynamics Argument against Materialism Revisited
Alter (2016) elaborates and defends an ambitious argument advanced by Chalmers (2002) against physicalism. As Alter notes, the argument is valid. But I will argue that not all its premises are true. In particular, it is false that all physical truths are
Andrei Mărăşoiu
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This paper discusses explanatory variables that constitute the driver’s subjective risk level when encountering a pedestrian who suddenly pops out from the roadside.
Hiroyuki TAKANASHI, Tetsushi MIMURO
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The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) allocates funds to participants for purchase of services. Only one percent of the 89,299 participants spent all of their allocated funds with 85 participants having failed to spend any, meaning ...
Satish Chand, Yu Zhang
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Objective: This paper evaluates the gender gap in waiting times for scheduled surgery, using information on 2.6 million surgical episodes in Portuguese National Health Service hospitals covering the period from 2011 to 2015. Methodology: We estimated the
Joana Cima +2 more
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Despite the progress made in studying the observable exteriors of conscious processes, which are reflected in the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC), there are still no satisfactory answers to two closely related core questions.
Joachim Keppler, Itay Shani
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Subjective Holism and the Problem of Consciousness. [PDF]
How does unconscious matter become conscious? How does our physical part, which lacks consciousness, have such a subjective quality? This is the explanatory gap in the problem of consciousness or the hard problem of consciousness which comes from a ...
Siamak Abdollahi, Mansour Nasiri
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Global output gap and domestic inflation in China [PDF]
This paper evaluates whether globalization has led to greater sensitivity of Chinese consumer price inflation to the global output gap. The empirical analysis uses quarterly data over the period 1995-2012.
Zhang Chengsi, Ji Xingchen, Dai Wensheng
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The Language of Colour: Neurology and the Ineffable
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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Income differentials on regional labour markets in Southwest Germany [PDF]
The aim of our paper is to identify explanatory variables for income disparities between women and men across different regional types. Using data from the BA Employment Panel (BEP) descriptive statistics show that the gender pay gap grows wider from ...
Guyot Alice +2 more
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