Tag: Jeffrey A. Gray
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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…
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Monkey have conscious visual perception
Below there is my message to the everything-list (see Unconsciousness components): http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/1dadda0d2b84f605 It is tricky to prove consciousness from behavior. Yet, it seems sometimes to be possible under some mild assumptions. To this end I will briefly describe below an experiment that has been done to prove that a monkey has conscious visual perception (p.…
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Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem
Jeffrey A. Gray, Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem. I find this book very interesting. The author considers in the book actually conscious experience only, for him consciousness == conscious experience. In other words, the book is about qualia from the viewpoint of neuroscience. p. 4. “This, then, are the ‘consciousness experiences’ that this…
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Evolution vs. God
Some time ago sergei_sh has brought to my attention the works of Jeffrey A. Gray and I have decided to read his book, Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem. I will definitely write more about it, as I like it a lot. Right now one statement not that related to the main content of the…