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Understanding Qualia

Author : Conrad Riker
Publisher : Conrad Riker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Qualia written by Conrad Riker and published by Conrad Riker. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you struggling to grasp the concept of qualia? Do you often find yourself wondering how qualia applies to machine learning, artificial intelligence, and even poetry? Are you in search of a comprehensive guide that breaks down the psychological and philosophical underpinnings of qualia? If so, "Understanding Qualia: A Comprehensive Guide" is the book for you. - Explore the definition of qualia through a comprehensive overview - Discover the hierarchy of qualia and understand its spectrum - Understand qualia's role in machine learning - Dive into the theory of mind and its connection to qualia - Discover the different classes of qualia and their everyday examples - Gain a deep understanding of the psychological underpinnings of qualia - Learn about the historical figures and concepts in the philosophical history of qualia - Discover the medical perspective on pathologies that affect qualia perception - Understand the neurological investigation of sensory perception and qualia - Discover if machines can experience qualia - Explore a future scenario of artificial intelligence and qualia - Analyze the role of qualia in poetry If you want to have a clear understanding of qualia and its applications, then buy "Understanding Qualia: A Comprehensive Guide" today. This book provides a logical, balanced, and scientific approach to understanding qualia, making it easy to read and memorable. It is perfect for those who are seeking an uncensored and unapologetic exploration into the concept of qualia.

The Case for Qualia

Author : Edmond Leo Wright
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262731886
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book The Case for Qualia written by Edmond Leo Wright and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical and scientific defenses of Indirect Realism and counterarguments to the attacks of qualiaphobes. Many philosophers and cognitive scientists dismiss the notion of qualia, sensory experiences that are internal to the brain. Leading opponents of qualia (and of Indirect Realism, the philosophical position that has qualia as a central tenet) include Michael Tye, Daniel Dennett, Paul and Patricia Churchland, and even Frank Jackson, a former supporter. Qualiaphiles apparently face the difficulty of establishing philosophical contact with the real when their access to it is seen by qualiaphobes to be second-hand and, worse, hidden behind a "veil of sensation"--a position that would slide easily into relativism and solipsism, presenting an ethical dilemma. In The Case for Qualia, proponents of qualia defend the Indirect Realist position and mount detailed counterarguments against opposing views. The book first presents philosophical defenses, with arguments propounding, variously, a new argument from illusion, a sense-datum theory, dualism, "qualia realism," qualia as the "cement" of the experiential world, and "subjective physicalism." Three scientific defenses follow, discussing color, heat, and the link between the external object and the internal representation. Finally, specific criticisms of opposing views include discussions of the Churchlands' "neurophilosophy," answers to Frank Jackson's abandonment of qualia (one of which is titled, in a reference to Jackson's famous thought experiment, "Why Frank Should Not Have Jilted Mary"), and refutations of Transparency Theory. Contributors Torin Alter, Michel Bitbol, Harold I. Brown, Mark Crooks, George Graham, C.L. Hardin, Terence E. Horgan, Robert J. Howell, Amy Kind, E.J. Lowe, Riccardo Manzotti, Barry Maund, Martine Nida-Rümelin, John O'Dea, Isabelle Peschard, Matjaz Potrc, Diana Raffman, Howard Robinson, William S. Robinson, John R. Smythies, Edmond Wright

Illusionism

Author : Keith Frankish
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845409663
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Illusionism written by Keith Frankish and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illusionism is the view that phenomenal consciousness (in the philosophers' sense) is an illusion. This book is a reprint of a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies devoted to this topic. It takes the form of a target paper by the editor, followed by commentaries from various thinkers, including leading defenders of the theory such as Daniel Dennett, Nicholas Humphrey, Derk Pereboom and Georges Rey. A number of disciplines are represented and different viewpoints are discussed and defended. The colleciton is tied together with a response to the commentaries from the editor.

Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World

Author : Terry Horgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107077834
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World written by Terry Horgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of new essays that develop themes from the work of the philosopher Jaegwon Kim.

Consciousness and the Philosophy of Signs

Author : Marc Champagne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319733389
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Consciousness and the Philosophy of Signs written by Marc Champagne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often thought that consciousness has a qualitative dimension that cannot be tracked by science. Recently, however, some philosophers have argued that this worry stems not from an elusive feature of the mind, but from the special nature of the concepts used to describe conscious states. Marc Champagne draws on the neglected branch of philosophy of signs or semiotics to develop a new take on this strategy. The term “semiotics” was introduced by John Locke in the modern period – its etymology is ancient Greek, and its theoretical underpinnings are medieval. Charles Sanders Peirce made major advances in semiotics, so he can act as a pipeline for these forgotten ideas. Most philosophers know Peirce as the founder of American pragmatism, but few know that he also coined the term “qualia,” which is meant to capture the intrinsic feel of an experience. Since pragmatic verification and qualia are now seen as conflicting commitments, Champagne endeavors to understand how Peirce could (or thought he could) have it both ways. The key, he suggests, is to understand how humans can insert distinctions between features that are always bound. Recent attempts to take qualities seriously have resulted in versions of panpsychism, but Champagne outlines a more plausible way to achieve this. So, while semiotics has until now been the least known branch of philosophy ending in –ics, his book shows how a better understanding of that branch can move one of the liveliest debates in philosophy forward.

Science, Truth, And Meaning: From Wonder To Understanding

Author : Benjamin L J Webb
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811231915
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Science, Truth, And Meaning: From Wonder To Understanding written by Benjamin L J Webb and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science, Truth, and Meaning presents a scientific and philosophical examination of our place in the world. It also celebrates how diverse, scientific knowledge is interconnected and reducible to common foundations.The book focuses on aspects of scientific truth that relate to our understanding of reality, and confronts whether truth is absolute or relative to what we are. Hence, it assesses the meaning of the scientific deductions we have made and how they have profoundly influenced our conception of life and existence.The subtitle is 'From Wonder to Understanding', which is a paraphrased quote from Einstein, who said that the search for scientific truth is ' ... a continual flight from wonder to understanding'.In addressing the goal of advancing our understanding of our place in the world, this book also reveals the development and details of diverse sciences, their connections and achievements, and that while perhaps the same fundamental questions exist, they are seen in the light of an ever-refined scientific perspective on reality.Why the book is needed: many popular science books have been written, aimed at different levels of subject expertise, and nearly all treat their specific subject in isolation. Few attempt to link different sciences to their common foundations, and those that do are written by physicists. Since human knowledge is derived by, and relates to, the biological organism that human beings are, then such a book written from a biological perspective represents a novel perspective on the integration of science, and addresses new questions. This is such a book.Impressive aspects: the depth, breadth, consistency, and clarity of the work.

Emotions, Qualia, And Consciousness

Author : Alfred Kaszniak
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814493872
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Emotions, Qualia, And Consciousness written by Alfred Kaszniak and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of emotion is a ubiquitous component of the stream of consciousness; emotional qualia interact with other contents and processes of consciousness in complex ways. Recent research has supported the hypothesis that important functional aspects of emotion can operate outside the conscious awareness. Primary types of emotions are found in animals, while secondary, more complex types are involved in interpersonal relationships. Emotions both influence genetic repair mechanisms of individuals and are responsible for group behavior. Many scholars and scientists believe that no scientific or philosophic account of consciousness can be complete without an understanding of the role of emotion.

Consciousness Explained

Author : Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316439487
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Consciousness Explained written by Daniel C. Dennett and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Dennett's "brilliant" exploration of human consciousness — named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times — is a masterpiece beloved by both scientific experts and general readers (New York Times Book Review). Consciousness Explained is a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional, commonsense theory of consciousness and presents a new model, based on a wealth of information from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence. Our current theories about conscious life — of people, animal, even robots — are transformed by the new perspectives found in this book. "Dennett is a witty and gifted scientific raconteur, and the book is full of fascinating information about humans, animals, and machines. The result is highly digestible and a useful tour of the field." —Wall Street Journal

Understanding Consciousness

Author : Max Velmans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134590482
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Consciousness written by Max Velmans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

When Night Falls

Author : Terence Paul Fagan
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781484252
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book When Night Falls written by Terence Paul Fagan and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consciousness is a hugely important brain phenomenon, but until now it has been a very poorly understood one in conceptual terms. However, a major breakthrough in our conceptual understanding has been made, and a radical new school of philosophical thought on the subject has arisen; and what we are now discovering consciousness to be, is truly mind-blowing! WHEN NIGHT FALLS explains this new school of philosophical thought on what conscious-mind is, how it relates to the brain, to our memory, and to the external world; and also discusses its existential implications, especially concerning the issue of conscious Life-After-Death.

Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art

Author : Paul M.W. Hackett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137483326
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art written by Paul M.W. Hackett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how we perceive and understand abstract art in contrast to artworks that represent reality. Philosophical, psychological and neuroscience research, including the work of philosopher Paul Crowther, are considered and out of these approaches a complex model is developed to account for this experience. The understanding embodied in this model is rooted in facet theory, mapping sentences and partially ordered analyses, which together provide a comprehensive understanding of the perceptual experience of abstract art.

Anti-Externalism

Author : Joseph Mendola
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019156012X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Externalism written by Joseph Mendola and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internalism in philosophy of mind is the thesis that all conditions that constitute a person's current thoughts and sensations, with their characteristic contents, are internal to that person's skin and contemporaneous. Externalism is the denial of internalism, and is now broadly popular. Joseph Mendola argues that internalism is true, and that there are no good arguments that support externalism. Anti-Externalism has three parts. Part I examines famous case-based arguments for externalism due to Kripke, Putnam, and Burge, and develops a unified internalist response incorporating rigidified description clusters. It argues that this proposal's only real difficulties are shared by all viable externalist treatments of both Frege's Hesperus-Phosphorus problem and Russell's problem of empty names, so that these difficulties cannot be decisive. Part II critically examines theoretical motivations for externalism entwined with causal accounts of perceptual content, as refined by Dretske, Fodor, Millikan, Papineau, and others, as well as motivations entwined with disjunctivism and the view that knowledge is the basic mental state. It argues that such accounts are false or do not provide proper motivation for externalism, and develops an internalist but physicalist account of sensory content involving intentional qualia. Part III critically examines theoretical motivations for externalism entwined with externalist accounts of language, including work of Brandom, Davidson, and Wittgenstein. It dialectically develops an internalist account of thoughts mediated by language that can bridge the internally constituted qualia of Part II and the rigidified description clusters of Part I.

Epiphenomenal Mind

Author : William S. Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429787707
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Epiphenomenal Mind written by William S. Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to epiphenomenalism, our behavior is caused by events in our brains that also cause our mentality. This resulting mentality reflects our brains’ organization, but does not in turn cause anything. This book defends an epiphenomenalist account of philosophy of mind. It builds on the author’s previous work by moving beyond a discussion of sensations to apply an epiphenomenalist outlook to other aspects of mental causation such as beliefs, desires, pleasure, and displeasure. The first four chapters of the book argue for a dualistic theory of sensations and develop an epiphenomenalist version of dualism. The remaining chapters discuss propositional attitudes and valence. The author also responds to potential objections to epiphenomenalism by considering how sensations, intelligence, or understanding might be built into a robot. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in philosophy of mind who are interested in consciousness, mental causation, and how our mentality is situated in the world.

Som

Author : Tom Chesters
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663263833
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Som written by Tom Chesters and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2024-07-24 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Som, an acronym for Speculations on mind, is a speculative theory of the fundamental physiological structure and operational nature of a mind. After the essential background information and basic premises of Som are given, the theory is progressively developed to attempt to account for the manifestation of subjective feelings, awareness, consciousness, sensory and mental qualia, personness, thought and reasoning processes, memory, imagination, dreams, moods, emotions, and numerous other diverse phenomena within our own personal reality. Som has been additionally provided with a brief addendum titled, Sor, an acronym for Speculations on reality. Sor considers the question of whether or not there might be an existent, underlying, supersensible reality which is possibly causal to the subsistence of our spatiotemporal continuum, and so ourselves. If you choose to travel into and through the imaginary realms of Som and Sor, you will likely realize at the end of your journey that you have gone full circle, and so returned to exactly where you started, within yourself, but then having a new and perhaps unforeseen ability to view your personal reality in a wholly different and surprisingly practical way.

SN3 - Collection of Interlaced Speeches

Author : Tomás Morales y Durán
Publisher : Libros de Verdad
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book SN3 - Collection of Interlaced Speeches written by Tomás Morales y Durán and published by Libros de Verdad. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the Factors of Clinging to Existence is the third of the five books of the Interwoven Discourses. It is named after its first saṃyutta which is the dominant one both in length and importance, since it deals with a key aspect of the teachings. The analysis of the factors of clinging to existence represents the logical level systematization of experience and is key to understanding suffering and describes how we are chained to Samsara. Experience involves five processes: qualia, emotional reaction, perception, conditional situation and cognition. The first is the process related to sense inputs and the other four are the processes of conceptualization. Qualia are the result of encoding and processing inputs from the six sense gates: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch and intellect, and deliver images, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile sensations and ideas. The emotional reaction is the first thing that intervenes through the limbic system and is the process that translates the experience into pleasant, unpleasant or indifferent. A pleasant experience will incite clinging and an unpleasant one, aversion. Perception is the process that gives meaning to the experience. The conditional situation affects the experience from the moment in which the same experience is not processed in the same way over time depending on the previous history. Each experience will change the conditional situation so that no experience will be repeated. Our perception of time is a conceptualization of the conditional situation. And finally, cognition is the act of knowing. As we see, all these components are perishable and last as long as the experience lasts. We have no other connection with Samsara than these five elements which, grouped together, we will call qualia and conceptualization. Understand that all five are conditioned and therefore perishable. That what is conditioned we have no control over. And that over which one has no control cannot be said to be "me" or "mine". And that which is neither me, nor mine, which is perishable and conditioned, is unsatisfactory. And that which is unsatisfactory becomes easy to abandon. And abandoning it, one abandons the enchainment to Samsara. We see that the consciousness is clinging to existence by these five clinging factors. Liberation is untying the consciousness from these five factors and constitutes the ultimate goal. A consciousness untied from Samsara is a free consciousness and freedom is Nibbāna. This is the core of the Dhamma. Of the remaining booklets, three continue with this theme and the rest deal with various secondary subjects, some organized by theme, others by persons. Of note is the saṃyutta devoted to the Nāgas, beings whose bodies are described as those of serpents, although they can assume human form at will. Also to the Supaṇṇas, mythical creatures imagined as winged, considered enemies of the nāgas, the Gandhabbas, a class of semi-divine beings who inhabit the Cātummahārājika realm and are the lowest among the devas, and the Valāhakas who are the cloud devas who control the weather.

From Brains to Systems

Author : Carlos Hernández
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146140164X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book From Brains to Systems written by Carlos Hernández and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems - BICS 2010 aims to bring together leading scientists and engineers who use analytic and synthetic methods both to understand the astonishing processing properties of biological systems and specifically of the brain, and to exploit such knowledge to advance engineering methods to build artificial systems with higher levels of cognitive competence. BICS is a meeting point of brain scientists and cognitive systems engineers where cross-domain ideas are fostered in the hope of getting emerging insights on the nature, operation and extractable capabilities of brains. This multiple approach is necessary because the progressively more accurate data about the brain is producing a growing need of a quantitative understanding and an associated capacity to manipulate this data and translate it into engineering applications rooted in sound theories. BICS 2010 is intended for both researchers that aim to build brain inspired systems with higher cognitive competences, and for life scientists who use and develop mathematical and engineering approaches for a better understanding of complex biological systems like the brain. Four major interlaced focal symposia are planned for this conference and these are organized into patterns that encourage cross-fertilization across the symposia topics. This emphasizes the role of BICS as a major meeting point for researchers and practitioners in the areas of biological and artificial cognitive systems. Debates across disciplines will enrich researchers with complementary perspectives from diverse scientific fields. BICS 2010 will take place July 14-16, 2010, in Madrid, Spain.

Experience and Possibility

Author : Joseph Mendola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192642464
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Experience and Possibility written by Joseph Mendola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience and Possibility concerns the modal ontology of experience. It investigates the detailed metaphysics of the colors, shapes, and other concrete properties present in our experience of ordinary concrete objects, and also of their spatial and temporal relations. It examines their experienced particularity, and the nature of their locations and material bits. This detailed concern with specific cases reveals many inadequacies of traditional ontology. But the central novelty of the book is an intense focus on the modal aspects of such experienced entities, and what it reveals about modality in general. The reality of such things would involve in surprising ways not merely what would hence be actual but also what would be merely possible. This supports a general conception of modality, of the possible and the necessary, according to which the actual and the possible are locally entwined and involve different types of being. The particulars, properties, and relations we experience involve distinctive forms of modal structure, characteristic of specific sorts of universals and irreducible particularities. When this experience is not veridical, when for instance the color we experience is somewhat misleading about reality, it is a puzzle how we have such experience nonetheless. Exploration of these forms of modal structure is groundwork for a new account of how our neurophysiology explains such misleading experience, how our physical structure delivers such qualia. This is sketched for the case of experienced color. Its core idea is that the apparent modal structure of things we experience is sometimes due to the actual modal structure of the neurophysiology that constitutes that experience.