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The meta-problem and the transfer of knowledge between theories of consciousness: a software engineer’s take [PDF]

This contribution examines two radically different explanations of our phenomenal intuitions, one reductive and one strongly non-reductive, and identifies two germane ideas that could benefit many other theories of consciousness.
Kvassay, Marcel
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The Linguistic Determination of Conscious Thought Contents [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper we address the question of what determines the content of our conscious episodes of thinking, considering recent claims that phenomenal character individuates thought contents.
Jorba, Marta, Vicente, Agustín
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Representationalism and the Spatial Representational Contents of Afterimage Experiences

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Experiences of afterimages have often been cited as counterexamples to representationalism about vision, that is, as counterexamples to the thesis that the phenomenal character of a visual experience is completely determined by its representational content. In this paper, I discuss a possible counterexample to representationalism that is based
René Jagnow
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“I” and “Me”: The Self in the Context of Consciousness

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
James (1890) distinguished two understandings of the self, the self as “Me” and the self as “I”. This distinction has recently regained popularity in cognitive science, especially in the context of experimental studies on the underpinnings of the ...
Mateusz Woźniak
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The Conscious Nematode: Exploring Hallmarks of Minimal Phenomenal Consciousness in Caenorhabditis Elegans. [PDF]

Int J Psychol Res (Medellin), 2023
Becerra D, Calixto A, Orio P.
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Consciousness and Causal Emergence: Śāntarakṣita Against Physicalism [PDF]

, 2017
In challenging the physicalist conception of consciousness advanced by Cārvāka materialists such as Bṛhaspati, the Buddhist philosopher Śāntarakṣita addresses a series of key issues about the nature of causality and the basis of cognition.
Coseru, Christian
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A Connectionist Theory of Phenomenal Experience [PDF]

, 1999
When cognitive scientists apply computational theory to the problem of phenomenal consciousness, as many of them have been doing recently, there are two fundamentally distinct approaches available.
O'Brien, Gerard, Opie, Jon
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AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
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The “Id” Knows More than the “Ego” Admits: Neuropsychoanalytic and Primal Consciousness Perspectives on the Interface Between Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience

Brain Sciences, 2012
It is commonly believed that consciousness is a higher brain function. Here we consider the likelihood, based on abundant neuroevolutionary data that lower brain affective phenomenal experiences provide the “energy” for the developmental construction of ...
Mark Solms, Jaak Panksepp
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Qualia and Phenomenal Consciousness Arise From the Information Structure of an Electromagnetic Field in the Brain. [PDF]

Front Hum Neurosci, 2022
Ward LM, Guevara R.
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