Towards resolving the hard problem: a synergistic network account of consciousness
| Autor: | Orner, Roderick, Galpin, Janet |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
C150 Environmental Biology
A300 Clinical Medicine B940 Counselling C840 Clinical Psychology C182 Evolution B760 Mental Health Nursing V550 Philosophy of Science C860 Neuropsychology C120 Behavioural Biology V510 Metaphysics C800 Psychology C890 Psychology not elsewhere classified C810 Applied Psychology V511 Epistemology B900 Others in Subjects allied to Medicine B340 Alternative Medicine C490 Genetics not elsewhere classified A100 Pre-clinical Medicine B140 Neuroscience B300 Complementary Medicine C820 Developmental Psychology B345 Hypnotherapy V500 Philosophy |
| Popis: | To resolve the hard problem of consciousness, we propose a systems-level theory of syner- gistic processes to account for sentience, consciousness, and mind. Subjectivity arises from interactive network processes within and between nature’s entangled, relational, and iter- ative elements. Searches for the physical cause or locus of consciousness and subjectivity are misguided given that consciousness emerges from processes with no single source. To account for the evolution and phenomenology of mind, our synergistic network account of consciousness (SNAC) dispenses with mind–body dualism, it weakens boundaries between the material and the non-material, between the internal and the external, and emphasises synergistic processes and functionalities over outcome. The theory challenges psychology to abandon its cause–effect categorisations and implied mind–body dualism in favour of functional systems-level analyses to better account for relational processes and functions which unfold synergistically within and sustain nature’s complex networks of entangled elements. |
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