Results 1 to 10 of about 14,904 (239)

A Naturalistic Approach to the Hard Problem of Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2019
Following a brief review of current efforts to identify the neuronal correlates of conscious processing (NCCP) an attempt is made to bridge the gap between the material neuronal processes and the immaterial dimensions of subjective experience.
Wolf Singer, Wolf Singer, Wolf Singer
doaj   +10 more sources

The hard problem of consciousness—A perspective from holistic philosophy [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2022
Based on a material view and reductionism, science has achieved great success. These cognitive paradigms treat the external as an objective existence and ignore internal consciousness. However, this cognitive paradigm, which we take for granted, has also
Jicheng Chen, Linlin Chen
doaj   +6 more sources

The Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Free Energy Principle [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
This article applies the free energy principle to the hard problem of consciousness. After clarifying some philosophical issues concerning functionalism, it identifies the elemental form of consciousness as affect and locates its physiological mechanism (
Mark Solms
doaj   +7 more sources

Structural qualia: a solution to the hard problem of consciousness [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
The hard problem of consciousness has been often claimed to be unsolvable by the methods of traditional empirical sciences. It has been argued that all the objects of empirical sciences can be fully analyzed in structural terms but that consciousness is (
Kristjan eLoorits
doaj   +8 more sources

The Easy Part of the Hard Problem: A Resonance Theory of Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019
Synchronization, harmonization, vibrations, or simply resonance in its most general sense seems to have an integral relationship with consciousness itself.
Tam Hunt, Jonathan W. Schooler
doaj   +5 more sources

How to Mitigate the Hard Problem by Adopting the Dual Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
In this paper, we propose the following hypothesis: the hard problem of consciousness is in part an artifact of what we call the unitary approach to phenomenal consciousness.
Michal Polák, Tomáš Marvan
doaj   +3 more sources

Stable Consciousness? The “Hard Problem” Historically Reconstructed and in Perspective of Neurophenomenological Research on Meditation

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Finding a scientific, third-person explanation of subjective experience or phenomenal content is commonly called the “hard problem” of consciousness. There has recently been a surge in neuropsychological research on meditation in general and long-term ...
Stephan Schleim
doaj   +3 more sources

The spiritual core of the hard problem: consciousness as foundational, not emergent [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
This paper proposes a transpersonal reframing of the Hard Problem of Consciousness by positing that consciousness is ontologically primary—not an emergent property of neural processes, but the foundational reality from which mind and matter arise ...
Amira Arora
doaj   +2 more sources

The Hard Problem of Consciousness

open access: yes
Abstract This chapter refers to the “hard problem of consciousness”, as discussed by David Chalmers, and its peculiar difficulties. Following Chalmers’s decade long work on the ontological riddles posed by the mind-body-problem, the chapter concludes Chalmers’s objective to find a naturalist theory of mind and matter might not be as ...
David Chalmers
exaly   +4 more sources

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy