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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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The Structure and Dynamics Argument against Materialism Revisited
Problemos, 2020 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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Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2022 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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International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, 2022 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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Portuguese Journal of Public Health, 2021 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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 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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Grounding, physicalism, and the explanatory gap [PDF]
, 2017 Contemporary metaphysics is marked by a revived interest in the notion of ground. Some philosophers have even suggested that this is the notion needed to best formulate physicalism---the view that the mental is “nothing over and above” the physical.
Blaesi, Zachary Alan
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Subjective Holism and the Problem of Consciousness. [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- KalāmīHow 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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