Showing posts with label Consciousness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Consciousness. Show all posts
Monday, July 18, 2022
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Frank Jackson - The Knowledge Argument - Mary's Room - Mary the Super-Sc...
Short video illustrating Frank Jackson's knowledge argument against physicalism and his related thought experiment of Mary, the colorblind super scientist. Philosopher Galen Strawson explains.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Monday, January 28, 2013
Friday, December 7, 2012
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Consciousness science and ethics: Abortion, animal rights, and vegetative-state debates. - Slate Magazine
Consciousness science and ethics: Abortion, animal rights, and vegetative-state debates. - Slate Magazine:
The most prominent scientific theories of consciousness are converging on the idea that it is related to a certain kind of information processing, in which multiple strands of data are drawn together, and that it is dependent on a certain kind of network architecture. Arguably the most popular theory along these lines, information integration theory by Giulio Tononi, effectively assumes that consciousness is a continuum across the animal kingdom. If so, even the lowly nematode worm, with a few hundred neurons, will have some, albeit minimal, level of consciousness. If something approximating this theory proves correct, it has huge implications for our relationship to all animals on the planet.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Interview with David Chalmers on consciousness
Here's a video of an interview with the philosopher of mind David Chalmers on consciousness and why it poses such a hard problem for philosophy and science:
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