Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Jun 18, 2004 · The main properties of access consciousness may be quite unlike those of qualitative or phenomenal consciousness, and those of reflexive consciousness or narrative consciousness may differ from both. However, by building up detailed theories of each type, we may hope to find important links between them and perhaps even to discover that they ...
Seventeenth-Century Theories of Consciousness
Jul 29, 2010 · Tracing the development of consciousness in the early modern period is complicated by the fact that both Latin and French, the two primary languages in which philosophy was written, have a single term that could mean either (a) moral conscience, or …
The Unity of Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Mar 27, 2001 · Human consciousness usually displays a striking unity. When one experiences a noise and, say, a pain, one is not conscious of the noise and then, separately, of the pain. One is conscious of the noise and pain together, as aspects of a single conscious experience.
The Neuroscience of Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of …
Oct 9, 2018 · Instead of explaining the existence of consciousness in the biological world, they set themselves to explaining generic consciousness by identifying neural properties that can turn consciousness on and off and explaining specific consciousness by identifying the neural representational basis of conscious contents.
Kant’s View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self
Jul 26, 2004 · There are two kinds of consciousness of self: consciousness of oneself and one’s psychological states in inner sense and consciousness of oneself and one’s states via performing acts of apperception.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Jul 13, 2017 · Human beings are conscious not only of the world around them but also of themselves: their activities, their bodies, and their mental lives. They are, that is, self-conscious (or, equivalently, self-aware). Self-consciousness can be understood as an awareness of oneself.
Consciousness and Intentionality - Stanford Encyclopedia of …
Jun 22, 2002 · Finally, we may note that this section’s issues raise important methodological questions for the philosophy of consciousness especially acutely. What role should reflection on one’s own experience play in argument? And what role should interpretation of recent intellectual history have here?
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia …
Nov 30, 2004 · There are three basic types of corresponding approaches: (1) consciousness is a manifestation of quantum processes in the brain, (2) quantum concepts are used to understand conscious mental activity without referring to brain activity, and (3) matter and consciousness are regarded as dual aspects of one underlying reality.
Notes to Animal Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of …
For instance, it is very like proprioception, and seems not to involve any linguistic capacity. Perhaps chimpanzees and even dogs have such consciousness. [G. Güzeldere (1995, fn. 22), “Is consciousness the perception of what passes in one’s own mind?”, in Conscious Experience, Thomas Metzinger (ed.). Paderborn: Schöningh/Imprint ...
Artificial Intelligence - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Jul 12, 2018 · For example, consciousness is only mentioned in passing in AIMA, but subjective consciousness is the most important thing in our lives – indeed we only desire to go on living because we wish to go on enjoying subjective states of certain types. Moreover, if human minds are the product of evolution, then presumably phenomenal consciousness has ...