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Immediate and Reflective Senses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper argues that there are two distinct kinds of senses, immediate senses and reflective senses. Immediate senses are what we are immediately aware of when we are in an intentional mental state, while reflective senses are what we understand of an ...
Mendelovici, Angela
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Artificial consciousness and the consciousness-attention dissociation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Artificial Intelligence is at a turning point, with a substantial increase in projects aiming to implement sophisticated forms of human intelligence in machines.
Haladjian, Harry Haroutioun   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Agnosticism about artificial consciousness

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
Could an AI have conscious experiences? Answers to this question should be based not on intuition, dogma or speculation but on solid scientific evidence. However, I argue such evidence is hard to come by and that the only justifiable stance is agnosticism.
Tom McClelland
wiley   +1 more source

Evolutionary Advantages of Inter-Subjectivity and Self-Consciousness through Improvements of Action Programs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Evolutionary advantages of consciousness and intersubjectivity are part of current philosophical debates on the nature of consciousness.\ud Both are linked and intersubjectivity is sometimes considered as a form of consciousness [1].
Menant, Mr Christophe
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Did I have a dream last night? White dreaming as metacognitive feelings

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
While most research on sleep mentation focuses on dream reports, sleep experiences can also include reports lacking content, such as white dreaming—the feeling of knowing one dreamt but being unable to recall its contents. I claim that white dreaming is a metacognitive feeling, akin to tip‐of‐the‐tongue and déjà experiences.
Adriana Alcaraz Sánchez
wiley   +1 more source

How to operationalise consciousness

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Psychology, 2019
Objective To review the way consciousness is operationalised in contemporary research, discuss strengths and weaknesses of current approaches and propose new measures.
Glenn Carruthers   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smelling Phenomenal

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
Qualitative consciousness arises at the sensory level of olfactory processing and pervades our experience of smells to the extent that qualitative character is maintained whenever we are aware of undergoing an olfactory experience.
Benjamin D. Young
doaj   +1 more source

WHERE EXPERIENCES ARE: DUALIST, PHYSICALIST, ENACTIVE AND REFLEXIVE ACCOUNTS OF PHENOMENAL CONSCIOUSNESS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Dualists believe that experiences have neither location nor extension, while reductive and ‘non-reductive’ physicalists (biological naturalists) believe that experiences are really in the brain, producing an apparent impasse in current theories of mind ...
Velmans, Prof Max
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The Argument from Consciousness and Divine Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The paper aims for an improvement of the so-called argument from consciousness while focusing on the first-person-perspective as a unique feature of consciousness that opens the floor for a theistic explanation.
Schärtl, Thomas
core   +1 more source

Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract There are underappreciated moral costs for deploying artificially intelligent agents in our present bureaucratically and market‐structured world. Currently, AI systems lack the interiority and mutual vulnerability required for genuine moral relationality.
Manuel Vargas
wiley   +1 more source

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