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Is music conscious? The argument from motion, and other considerations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Music is often described in anthropomorphic terms. This paper suggests that if we think about music in certain ways we could think of it as conscious. Motional characteristics give music the impression of being alive, but musical motion is conventionally
O'Regan, Kevin
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The Real Combination Problem : Panpsychism, Micro-Subjects, and Emergence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Panpsychism harbors an unresolved tension, the seriousness of which has yet to be fully appreciated. I capture this tension as a dilemma, and offer panpsychists advice on how to resolve it. The dilemma, briefly, is as follows.
B Russell   +24 more
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Theologies of Mind: Eriugena and Pratyabhijñā Śaivism

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Though Eriugena's affinities with several Hindu traditions are clear, this article offers to my knowledge the first detailed discussion of Eriugena's theology in relation to any Indic theological school, here, the nondualist Śaiva tradition known as the Pratyabhijñā (“Recognition”) lineage.
Matthew Z. Vale
wiley   +1 more source

Phenomenal and computational in the structures of consciousness

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2017
This article focuses on the explanatory limits of the computational approach to the phenomenal consciousness. The principal aim is to analyze the methodological bounds of computational models regarding the content of the subjective phenomenal experience.
P N Baryshnikov
doaj   +1 more source

Grounding, Analysis, and Russellian Monism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Few these days dispute that the knowledge argument demonstrates an epistemic gap between the physical facts and the facts about experience. It is much more contentious whether that epistemic gap can be used to demonstrate a metaphysical gap of a kind ...
Al-Ghazālī.   +209 more
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Welfare and Felt Duration

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should we understand the duration of a pleasant or unpleasant sensation, insofar as its duration modulates how good or bad the experience is overall? Given that we seem able to distinguish between subjective and objective duration and that how well or badly someone's life goes is naturally thought of as something to be assessed from her ...
Andreas L. Mogensen
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Visual Consciousness in Autism Spectrum Disorders

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015
The paper focuses on the question of what the (visual) perceptual differences are between individuals with autism spectrum disorders and typically developing individuals.
Tal eYatziv   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The phenomenal brain : making room for a phenomenal-neural type identity theory of phenomenal consciousness [PDF]

open access: yes
Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb. 25, 2010).The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the ...
Hedderman, Jason, 1973-
core   +1 more source

Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source

An Emergentist Approach to Phenomenal Causality

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophers have long debated whether phenomenal properties can play genuine causal roles. In this article, I aim to develop an emergentist approach to phenomenal causality, an approach that attributes novel causal powers to phenomenal properties and rejects the causal closure of physics.
Lei Zhong
wiley   +1 more source

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