Understanding And Conscious Experience
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Understanding And Conscious Experience
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Author : Andrei Ionuț Mărăşoiu
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-09-02
Understanding And Conscious Experience written by Andrei Ionuț Mărăşoiu and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-02 with Philosophy categories.
This volume explores how understanding relates to conscious experience. In doing so, it builds bridges between different philosophical disciplines and provides a metaphysically robust characterization of understanding, both in and beyond science. The past two decades have witnessed growing interest from epistemologists, philosophers of science, philosophers of mind and ethicists in the nature and value of intellectual understanding. This volume features original essays on understanding and the phenomenal experiences that underlie it. The chapters are divided into three thematic sections. Part 1 provides theoretical characterizations of understanding, including Henk de Regt’s defense of a contextual theory of scientific understanding and a debate on whether scientific inference and explanatory power are necessary or central features of understanding. Part 2 explores how conscious experience and understanding are related. The chapters articulate a phenomenal theory of understanding and address themes that are connected to understanding, including awareness, transformative experiences and exemplification. Finally, Part 3 is devoted to domain-specific inquiries about understanding, such as logical proofs, particle physics and moral understanding. Understanding and Conscious Experience will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in the philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics and phenomenology.
Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness
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Author : William S. Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-03-29
Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness written by William S. Robinson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-29 with Philosophy categories.
William S. Robinson has for many years written insightfully about the mind-body problem. In Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness he focuses on sensory experience (e.g., pain, afterimages) and perception qualities such as colours, sounds and odours to present a dualistic view of the mind, called Qualitative Event Realism, that goes against the dominant materialist views. This theory is relevant to the development of a science of consciousness which is now being pursued not only by philosophers but by researchers in psychology and the brain sciences. This provocative book will interest students and professionals who work in the philosophy of mind and will also have cross-disciplinary appeal in cognitive psychology and the brain sciences.
The Structure Of Conscious Experience
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Author : Lee Roy Beach
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-08-15
The Structure Of Conscious Experience written by Lee Roy Beach and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-15 with Psychology categories.
There must exist a point at which the molecular and electro-chemical processes that comprise brain function are transformed into rich, orderly conscious experience which seamlessly blends the present moment, what led up to it, and what will follow it. This is the stuff of our everyday lives, and it raises questions about its organization and how that organization facilitates engagement with the world at large. In short, what is the structure of conscious experience and what is gained by it being structured that way? This book argues that the structure is what is familiarly known as narrative form and that the gain is the ability to communicate about one’s experience with oneself and others, as well as to make informed predictions about what will happen in the fundamentally unknowable and potentially dangerous future. In the latter case, because the essence of narrative form is time and causality, structuring events from memory (the past) and from perception (the present) in narrative form causally implies future events (expectations). The potential threat (the bad or the absence of good) of these expected future events can be assessed, and, if required, action can be taken to prevent their occurrence or to diminish their impact. The implications about thinking and action, and about who we are as individuals, are also discussed here.
Understanding Phenomenology
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Author : David R. Cerbone
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-05
Understanding Phenomenology written by David R. Cerbone and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-05 with Philosophy categories.
"Understanding Phenomenology" provides a guide to one of the most important schools of thought in modern philosophy. The book traces phenomenology's historical development, beginning with its founder, Edmund Husserl and his "pure" or "transcendental" phenomenology, and continuing with the later, "existential" phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The book also assesses later, critical responses to phenomenology - from Derrida to Dennett - as well as the continued significance of phenomenology for philosophy today. Written for anyone coming to phenomenology for the first time, the book guides the reader through the often bewildering array of technical concepts and jargon associated with phenomenology and provides clear explanations and helpful examples to encourage and enhance engagement with the primary texts.
Understanding Consciousness
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language : en
Publisher: Routledge
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Understanding Consciousness written by and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Understanding Consciousness
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Author : Gerd Sommerhoff
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2000-06-27
Understanding Consciousness written by Gerd Sommerhoff and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-27 with Psychology categories.
`This is surely the ultimate expression of the top-down approach to consciousness, written with Sommerhoff′s characteristic clarity and precision. It says far more than other books four times the size of this admirably concise volume. This book is destined to become a pillar of the subject′ -Rodney Cotterill, Technical University of Denmark The problem of consciousness has been described as a mystery about which we are still in a terrible muddle and in Understanding Consciousness: Its Function and Brain Processes, the author unravels this mystery through a clarification of the main concepts related to consciousness, followed by a comprehensive biological explanation. Consequently, this book will be ideal for a wide-range of upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The author interprets consciousness as a property that can also be possessed by creatures lacking a language faculty and comprises all of the following: awareness of the surrounding world; awareness of the self as an entity; and awareness of such things as thoughts and feelings. He argues that a biological approach can achieve both the necessary conceptual clarifications and a joint explanation of these divisions of awareness in terms of just two accurately defined concepts of ′internal representation′ and two empirically supported assumptions about the functional architecture of a specific set of brain processes. Despite this striking simplicity, his model covers these divisions of awareness, both as objective faculties of the brain and as subjective experience. These conclusions are applied to a broad range of fundamental questions, including the biological rationale of subjective experience and where consciousness resides in the neural networks.
Waking Dreaming Being
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Author : Evan Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-18
Waking Dreaming Being written by Evan Thompson and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-18 with Religion categories.
A renowned philosopher of the mind, also known for his groundbreaking work on Buddhism and cognitive science, Evan Thompson combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and meditation with Indian and Western philosophy of mind, casting new light on the self and its relation to the brain. Thompson shows how the self is a changing process, not a static thing. When we are awake we identify with our body, but if we let our mind wander or daydream, we project a mentally imagined self into the remembered past or anticipated future. As we fall asleep, the impression of being a bounded self distinct from the world dissolves, but the self reappears in the dream state. If we have a lucid dream, we no longer identify only with the self within the dream. Our sense of self now includes our dreaming self, the "I" as dreamer. Finally, as we meditate—either in the waking state or in a lucid dream—we can observe whatever images or thoughts arise and how we tend to identify with them as "me." We can also experience sheer awareness itself, distinct from the changing contents that make up our image of the self. Contemplative traditions say that we can learn to let go of the self, so that when we die we can witness its dissolution with equanimity. Thompson weaves together neuroscience, philosophy, and personal narrative to depict these transformations, adding uncommon depth to life's profound questions. Contemplative experience comes to illuminate scientific findings, and scientific evidence enriches the vast knowledge acquired by contemplatives.
Discourse Consciousness And Time
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Author : Wallace Chafe
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1994-10-15
Discourse Consciousness And Time written by Wallace Chafe and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Wallace Chafe demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works. Relying on analyses of conversational speech, written fiction and nonfiction, the North American Indian language Seneca, and the music of Mozart and of the Seneca people, he investigates both the flow of ideas through consciousness and the displacement of consciousness by way of memory and imagination. Chafe draws on several decades of research to demonstrate that understanding the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many topics of linguistic importance, such as anaphora, tense, clause structure, and intonation, as well as stylistic usages such as the historical present and free indirect style. This book offers a comprehensive picture of the dynamic natures of language and consciousness for linguists, psychologists, literary scholars, computer scientists, anthropologists, and philosophers.
4th Dimension And Human Volume 3
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Author : Prof. Dr. Bilal Semih Bozdemir
language : en
Publisher: Prof. Dr. Bilal Semih Bozdemir
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4th Dimension And Human Volume 3 written by Prof. Dr. Bilal Semih Bozdemir and has been published by Prof. Dr. Bilal Semih Bozdemir this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Art categories.
4th Dimension and Human What is the 4th dimension? Time as the 4th dimension Relativity and the 4th dimension Spacetime and the 4th dimension Visualizing the 4th dimension The human experience of time Perception of time Memory and the 4th dimension Aging and the 4th dimension Time travel and the 4th dimension Dreams and the 4th dimension Altered states and the 4th dimension Death and the 4th dimension Consciousness and the 4th dimension The limits of human perception Expanding human senses Technology and the 4th dimension Virtual reality and the 4th dimension Augmented reality and the 4th dimension Artificial intelligence and the 4th dimension The future of human experience Quantum mechanics and the 4th dimension Strings and the 4th dimension Parallel universes and the 4th dimension Spirituality and the 4th dimension Mysticism and the 4th dimension Mythology and the 4th dimension Literature and the 4th dimension Art and the 4th dimension Music and the 4th dimension Philosophy and the 4th dimension The ethics of manipulating time The societal impact of the 4th dimension The scientific pursuit of the 4th dimension Challenges and limitations in 4th dimension research Potential breakthroughs in 4th dimension exploration The 4th dimension and the human condition The 4th dimension and the meaning of life Embracing the 4th dimension Preparing for the future of the 4th dimension Conclusion: The 4th dimension and the human experience
Language And Conscious Experience
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Author : W. H. Sparks
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2010-02
Language And Conscious Experience written by W. H. Sparks and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02 with Philosophy categories.
Language and Conscious Experience is a philosophical theory of consciousness. The book presents a theory that accommodates every aspect of consciousness and conscious experience. The aspects referred to are perception, imagery including memory and dreams, feelings (emotion) and the acquisition and development of language including the origination of meaning. The nature of consciousness is the energies detected by sensory receptors. The nature of conscious experience is the detection by spindle receptors of energies developed and enhanced in intrafusal muscle spindles. We experience the environment in the form of sensations: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch, to use the common and traditional identifications. Consciousness is experienced by the detection of intrafusal muscle spindles. The spindle receptor detection is analogous to the detection of the environment by sensory receptors. The difference, of course, is that we are conscious as the detection of the intrafusal spindles. The purpose of the neuromuscular system is response to the energies of the environment. The purpose of the intrafusal spindles is to control the neuromuscular system. Efferent impulse activity from synaptic activity enhances the intrafusal spindles that can then be detected as conscious experience. Energies developed in the intrafusal spindles are determined by the innervation of the system. When enhanced from configured synaptic activity the innervation is modified by the synaptic activity configured by experience.