The author of this text offers a theory of consciousness. He proposes that conscious experience must be understood as an irreducible entity similar to such physical properties as time, mass, and space that exists at a fundamental level and cannot be understood as the sum of its parts.
The author of this text offers a theory of consciousness. He proposes that conscious experience must be understood as an irreducible entity similar to such physical properties as time, mass, and space that exists at a fundamental level and cannot be understood as the sum of its parts.
David J. Chalmers is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Inhaltsangabe
I. Preliminaries 1: Two Concepts of Mind 2: Supervenience and Explanation II. The Irreducibility of Consciousness 3: Can Consciousness be Reductively Explained? 4: Naturalistic Dualism 5: The Paradox of Phenomenal Judgment III. Toward a Theory of Consciousness 6: The Coherence between Consciousness and Cognition 7: Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia 8: Consciousness and Information: Some Speculation IV. Applications 9: Strong Artificial Intelligence 10: The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Notes Bibliography
I. Preliminaries 1: Two Concepts of Mind 2: Supervenience and Explanation II. The Irreducibility of Consciousness 3: Can Consciousness be Reductively Explained? 4: Naturalistic Dualism 5: The Paradox of Phenomenal Judgment III. Toward a Theory of Consciousness 6: The Coherence between Consciousness and Cognition 7: Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia 8: Consciousness and Information: Some Speculation IV. Applications 9: Strong Artificial Intelligence 10: The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Notes Bibliography
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