Category: consciousness
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Is the brain in the world or the world in the brain?
The title is taken from Max Velmans, Where experiences are: Dualist, physicalist, enactive and reflexive accounts of phenomenal consciousness, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Volume 6, Number 4 (2007), 547-563 Preprint: http://cogprints.org/4891/ In the paper, the reflexive model of perception is suggested. “In most respects Figure 3 is the same as Figures 1 and 2.…
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Late-Error Detection
My messages to the everything list about the role of consciousness according to Jeffery A. Gray, Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/9166d4890f13c5c/ 04.04.2012 20:58: The term late error detection as such could be employed without consciousness indeed. Yet, Jeffrey Gray gives it some special meaning that I will try briefly describe below. Jeffrey…
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Aristotle on the Souls of Animals
In his lecture (Beweistheorien, lecture 9) http://www.podcasts.uni-freiburg.de/podcast_content?id_content=24 Prof Hoenen has mentioned that according to Aristotle even an animal has an ability to make a judgment (Urteil) based on perception. “And this evidently belongs to all animals; for they have a connate judgemental capacity, which is called perception. And if perception is present in them, in…
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Computers have emotions
My messages to the everything-list: http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/0ba5f90b7e68bccf 03.02.2012 21:23: Craig’s position that computers in the present form do not have emotions is not unique, as emotions belong to consciousness. A quote from my favorite book Jeffery A. Gray, Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem The last sentence from the chapter “10.2 Conscious computers?” p. 128…
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Turing Test and Female Hormones
Quotes from Jaron Lanier on Turing Test from his book You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, 2010. From the chapter The Apple Falls Again. “The second thing to know about Turing is that he was gay at a time when it was illegal to be gay. British authorities, thinking they were doing the most compassionate…
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A survival value for consciousness
From discussion on the everything list: http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/4c12841ff0dd1ff0 13.01.2012 21:54. In my favorite book on consciousness (by Jeffery A. Gray, Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem) there is chapter 7 “A survival value for consciousness” that is summarized on p. 90: “Whatever consciousness is, it is too important to be a mere accidental by-product of…
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What is conscious experience?
From my message to the everything-list http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/c24aeba44e5b0d3b Science has just recently started to research on conscious experience and so far this phenomenon has not been repeated in vitro yet. Moreover, it seems that the modern science does not have means to describe it: Jeffery A. Gray, Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem: p.5. “To…
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Thermostat Feels Cold
On the everything list there was a discussion, where Stathis Papaioannou has mentioned that “the thermostat feels cold” (the discussion is long, the first message relevant is #350 with a subject bruno list): http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/1dadda0d2b84f605 Below there are a few quotes that shows the context and then my answer. More at the link above. Bruno Marchal…