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This article presents an analysis of David Hume's epistemological position faced with explanatory gap problem. What did Hume do? Did he resolve the explanatory gap problem or made it insurmountable? The text falls into two main parts: In the first the author tries to show that Hume's attempt to surmount explanatory gap by his analysis of reason's ...
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Philosophical Puzzles Evade Empirical Evidence: Some Thoughts and Clarifications Regarding the Relation Between Brain Sciences and Philosophy of Mind [PDF]
This chapter analyzes the relation between brain sciences and philosophy of mind, in order to clarify in what ways philosophy can contribute to neuroscience and neuroscience can contribute to philosophy.
Sarıhan, Işık
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Theories of consciousness grounded in neuroscience must explain the phenomenal binding problem, e.g., how micro-units of information are combined to create the macro-scale conscious experience common to human phenomenology.
Chris Percy, Andrés Gómez-Emilsson
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On the practical nature of artificial qualia [PDF]
Proceeding of: 2010 Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB 2010), Leicester, UK, 29 March - 1 April, 2010.Can machines ever have qualia?
Arrabales, Raúl +2 more
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Consciousness and Cosmos: Building an Ontological Framework [PDF]
Contemporary theories of consciousness are based on widely different concepts of its nature, most or all of which probably embody aspects of the truth about it. Starting with a concept of consciousness indicated by the phrase “the feeling of what happens”
Nixon, Greg +3 more
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Rethinking the Specious Present [PDF]
In this chapter I argue that despite its current popularity the doctrine of the specious present, or at least every current version of it, should be rejected.
Prosser, Simon James
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Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity [PDF]
I argue that perceptual consciousness is constituted by a mental activity. The mental activity in question is the activity of employing perceptual capacities, such as discriminatory, selective capacities.
Schellenberg, Susanna
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Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia
In this paper I use thought-experiments to argue that functional organization fully determines conscious experience. These thought-experiments involve the gradual replacement of neurons by silicon chips, and similar scenarios. I argue that if "absent qualia" or "inverted qualia", are possible, then phenomena I call "fading qualia" and "dancing qualia ...
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Thema der Arbeit sind die Konzepte von 'phänomenaler Erfahrung' und 'Bewußtsein' in verschiedenen empirischen und philosophischen Theorien über das Verhältnis von physiologischen und mentalen Prozessen. Der 1. Teil klärt das Umfeld des Problems: Kapitel 1 und 2 erläutern, warum die Diskussion phänomenaler Qualitäten oder Qualia zum Lackmustest der ...
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Uczymy się dzięki temu, że potrafimy odbierać otaczający nas świat przez zmysły. Kognitywizm rozszerza postrzeganie uczenia się, które traktuje jako zestaw złożonych procesów przetwarzania informacji, ich interpretowania oraz budowania skomplikowanych ...
Wioletta Sołtysiak
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