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Hilary Putnam (1926-2016): A Lifetime Quest to Understand the Relationship between Mind, Language, and Reality [PDF]

, 2016
This is an extended intellectual obituary for Hilary ...
Anderson, David Leech
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Integrated Information Theory and the Phenomenal Binding Problem: Challenges and Solutions in a Dynamic Framework

Entropy
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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Epistemology and Ontology of the Quality. An Introduction to the Enactive Approach to Qualitative Ontology [PDF]

, 2016
The concept of quality points at a significant philosophical problem. The issue of the ontological status of the qualities of experience and reality leads us to discuss the issues of naturalism and reductionism in philosophy of mind.
Pace Giannotta, Andrea
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Observations [PDF]

Observations on qualia, death, free will, why there is something rather than nothing, and the Star Trek vs.
Merriam, Paul
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A Blueprint for the Hard Problem of Consciousness [PDF]

, 2019
A Blueprint for the Hard Problem of Consciousness addresses the fundamental mechanism that allows physical events to transcend into subjective experiences, termed the Hard Problem of Consciousness. Consciousness is made available as
Negro, Paulo J.
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The Privatization of Sensation [PDF]

, 2000
It is the ambition of evolutionary psychology to explain how the basic features of human mental life came to be selected because of their contribution to biological survival.
Humphrey, Nicholas
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Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia

, 1995
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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Qualia

, 1998
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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Meta-Illusionism and Qualia Quietism [PDF]

, 2016
Many so-called problems in contemporary philosophy of mind depend for their expression on a collection of inter-defined technical terms, a few of which are qualia, phenomenal property, and what-it’s-like-ness. I express my scepticism about Keith Frankish’
Mandik, Pete
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Processing Metonymy: a Domain-Model Heuristic Graph Traversal Approach

, 1996
We address here the treatment of metonymic expressions from a knowledge representation perspective, that is, in the context of a text understanding system which aims to build a conceptual representation from texts according to a domain model expressed in
Bachimont, Bruno, Bouaud, Jacques, Zweigenbaum, Pierre   +2 more
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