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A Blueprint for the Hard Problem of Consciousness.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sharjah :
Bentham Science Publishers,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Biblography; End User License Agreement; Contents; Foreword; WHY WE NEED A BLUEPRINT FOR CONSCIOUSNESS; THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUS VERSUS UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSES; THE PROBLEM OF THE UNANALYZABILITY OF CONSCIOUS CONTENTS; THE PROBLEM OF COMPLETENESS; THE PROBLEM OF CONTEXTUAL SENSITIVITY; THE PROBLEM OF THE SPEED OF PROCESSING; THE NEED FOR A BLUEPRINT OF CONSCIOUSNESS; NOTE; Preface; CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE; DEDICATION; Section 1. SETTING UP THE PROBLEM; Introduction; WHAT IS THE HARD PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- CONSCIOUSNESS AS A FORM OF INFORMATIONTHE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NATURAL HISTORY AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; NOTES; Does It Make Sense to Trace Consciousness to Single-Celled Organisms?; QUALIA AS INFORMATION; NOTES; Consciousness: Computable, Noncomputable or Both?; IN FAVOR OF NON COMPUTABILITY; IN FAVOR OF COMPUTABILITY; A HYBRID SYSTEM: EMBODIED ABSTRACTIONS; NOTES; A Brief Criticism of Theories; THE CIRCULAR REASONING OF THE INTEGRATED INFORMATION THEORY; THE PROBLEM LIES IN THE IIT AXIOMS; QUANTUM INFORMATION, ANTHROPOMORPHIZED IN THE ORCH OR THEORY; THE ABSENT SUBJECT; NOTES
- Section 2. BLUEPRINT; Expectation Without a Spectator; INFORMATION IS MADE POSSIBLE BY EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE ORGANISM AND ITS ENVIRONMENT; A CAR ENGINE EXPRESSES ITS DESIGNERS' EXPECTATIONS; LIVING BEINGS EXPRESS EMERGING PROCESSES EXPECTATIONS; NOTES; Negative Entropy and Inference in Living Organisms; CELLS TRANSFORM SUBCELLULAR ORGANIZATION IN BIOLOGICALLY MEANINGFUL INFORMATION WITH COMMUNICATIONS CHANNELS AND REFERENCE ABOUT SOMETHING; CELLULAR PROCESSES AND BRAIN COMPUTATIONS SHARE AN IMPLICIT PROBABILISTIC MODEL OF THE ENVIRONMENT; NOTES; Expectations in a Strange Loop
- THE INTRODUCTION OF 'EXPECTATION. INFORMATION' EXPECTATION. INFORMATIONA GENERATIVE MODEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS BASED ON ACTIONS; NOTES; In Search of Meaning; SHANNON'S INFORMATION CAN BE REALIZED AS INFORMATION ABOUT SOMETHING; NOTES; Supplanting the Integrated Information Theory; HUMAN SUBJECTIVITY IS ABSTRACT AND CANNOT BE MEASURED DIRECTLY; THE IIT IS A CRYPTIC FORM OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN; NOTES; Section 3. IN SEARCH OF QUALIA IN LOCAL NETWORKS; ; Awareness of Location; A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PHYSIOLOGY; CAN QUALIA BE PRESSED DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE OF LOCAL NETWORKS?
- REALIZATION OF INFORMATION ACROSS OMNIDIRECTIONAL CELL ASSEMBLIES CAN CONVEY ABSTRACT MEANINGTHETA OSCILLATIONS CROSS-COUPLING CAN GENERATE HIGHER-ORDER CELL ASSEMBLIES; ACTIONS GENERATE CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT MAPS; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; Awareness of Time; A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE PHYSIOLOGY; AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERVAL TIMING; LOCAL NETWORKS CAN ENCODE LOCAL TIME; SHORT-TERM PLASTICITY CAN EXPLAIN LOCAL EFFECTS IN INTERVAL TIMING; OSCILLATORY PHASE ADAPTATION FRAMES BRAIN-CENTRIC TIME EXPERIENCES; BRAIN-CENTRIC EXPECTATIONS PREDICT CONSCIOUS PER- CEPTION; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; Interoception