Neurophenomenology: an invitation to discussion
No more than a few years ago could open an article concerning neurophenomenology with a statement describing recent rediscovery of the problem of consciousness by the cognitive sciences and pointing to the fact that right now, explaining conscious experience in neuroscientific or computational terms...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre for Philosophical Research
2010-11-01
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| Series: | Avant: Journal of Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard |
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| Online Access: | http://avant.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2010-01/en/avant_2010-01_01-04_en.pdf |
| Summary: | No more than a few years ago could open an article concerning neurophenomenology with a statement describing recent rediscovery of the problem of consciousness by the cognitive sciences and pointing to the fact that right now, explaining conscious experience in neuroscientific or computational terms poses the greatest challenge for those sciences. Today however, constatations of this sort start to sound like trivial descriptions of a universally recognized state of affairs. The question of “how the water of the physical brain is turned into a wine of consciousness” is now among the mainstream problems of cognitive science. |
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| ISSN: | 2082-7598 2082-6710 |