The Myth of When and Where: How False Assumptions Still Haunt Theories of Consciousness
| Autor: | Sepehrdad Rahimian |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Electromagnetic theories of consciousness
Consciousness media_common.quotation_subject Cartesian materialism Brain Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Illusionism Epistemology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Panpsychism Folk psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology Cognitive dissonance Humans Psychology Explanatory gap media_common |
| DOI: | 10.31234/osf.io/crbt5 |
| Popis: | Recent advances in Neural sciences have uncovered countless new facts about the brain. Although there is a plethora of theories of consciousness, it seems to some philosophers that there is still an explanatory gap when it comes to a scientific account of subjective experience. In what follows, I will argue why some of our more commonly acknowledged theories do not at all provide us with an account of subjective experience as they are built on false assumptions. These assumptions have led us into a state of cognitive dissonance between maintaining our standard scientific practices on one hand, and maintaining our folk notions on the other. I will then end by proposing Illusionism as the only option for a scientific investigation of consciousness and that even if ideas like panpsychism turn out to be holding the seemingly missing piece of the puzzle, the path to them must go through Illusionism. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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