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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this essay, I present a theory of attunement, the agent's readiness to attend to a target. I focus on attunement to reasons for action, and in particular, on sensitivity to moral reasons. After noting that many claims regarding moral perception are better construed as claims regarding moral attention, I separate perceptual from attentional ...
Wayne Wu
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E-Phisicalism - A Phisicalist Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness
Ideas y Valores, 2013 El libro E-physicalism - A Physicalist Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness presenta una teoría en el área de la metafísica de la conciencia fenomenal. Está basada en las convicciones de que la experiencia subjetiva –en el sentido de Nagel (1974)– es un ...
Reinaldo Bernal +4 more
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The self and conscious experience
Frontiers in PsychologyThe primary determinant of the self (S) is the conscious experience (CE) we have of it. Therefore, it does not come as a surprise that empirical research on S mainly resorts to the CE (or lack of CE) that subjects have of their S.
Giorgio Marchetti
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The Problem of Psychonomic Harmony
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The problem of nomological harmony is the problem of explaining why the laws of nature match or apply to the states of the universe in a way that results in temporal evolution. The problem of psychophysical harmony is the problem of explaining why phenomenal states are paired with physical states and other phenomenal states in surprisingly ...
Joseph C. Schmid
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Studia Semiotyczne, 2019 DOI: http://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxi1.05 The paper discusses possible roles of consciousness in a semiotic (meaning-making) activity of a cognitive agent.
Piotr Konderak
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Intracranial neural representation of phenomenal and access consciousness in the human brain
NeuroImageAfter more than 30 years of extensive investigation, impressive progress has been made in identifying the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC).
Zepeng Fang +5 more
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, I argue that the thoroughly algorithmic nature of current AI systems (such as LLMs) is no obstacle to their being conscious, despite strong apparent reasons to the contrary. To this end, I present a picture on which algorithmic AI systems comprise dispositional properties that realize categorical phenomenal properties where the ...
Samuel Kimpton‐Nye
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Which Thoughts Require Sensory Capacities?
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Is it possible that something—say, an alien, an angel, or an artificial system—thinks without having or ever having had any sensory capacity? If so, what could such a thing think? An extreme nativist view on this issue is that it's possible to think every thought—alternatively, every thinkable thought—without having or having had any sensory ...
Pär Sundström
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Attention and the Relevance Problem
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The relevance problem is the problem of how cognitive systems can be sensitive to what is relevant despite relevance being holistic, open‐ended, and context‐sensitive. The problem has typically been applied to higher‐order cognitive processes.
Jelle Bruineberg
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Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Descartes' cogito argument is perhaps the most well‐known philosophical argument, the conclusion of which is supposed to be a form of rationalism that allows for contingent a priori knowledge of the world. In this short note, I argue that, in fact, the all important statement, ‘I am, I exist’, should be analysed through the lens of (classical)
Tom Schoonen
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