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In other words, according to Block, humans were conscious all along but did not have the concept of consciousness and thus did not discuss it in their texts. Daniel Dennett countered that for some things, such as money, baseball, or consciousness, one cannot have the thing without also having the concept of the thing. [31] [32] [33]
Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness is a 2019 book authored by British philosopher Philip Goff. The book presents a defense of the theory of panpsychism as the solution to the hard problem of consciousness. [1]
Levine does not think that the explanatory gap means that consciousness is not physical; he is open to the idea that the explanatory gap is only an epistemological problem for physicalism. [43] In contrast, Chalmers thinks that the hard problem of consciousness does show that consciousness is not physical.
Book: The Physics of Consciousness, Perseus Press: Boston, MA. Published January, 2000. "The Natural Philosophy and Physics of Consciousness," in The Physical Nature of Consciousness, edited by Philip Van Loocke, John Benjamins Amsterdam/Philadelphia pp. 63–82, 2001. (for a more complete list, see APA Bio Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback ...
Leibniz's passage describing the explanatory gap is as follows: It must be confessed, moreover, that perception, and that which depends on it, are inexplicable by mechanical causes, that is, by figures and motions, And, supposing that there were a mechanism so constructed as to think, feel and have perception, we might enter it as into a mill.
An August 2024 study in the journal Physics Review E proposes that a fatty material called myelin, which sheaths the brain cell’s axon, provides the ideal environment for this entanglement ...
Using this conception of perception as a state, Armstrong characterizes consciousness as "perception or awareness of the state of our own mind", [7] or "a self-scanning system in the central nervous system". [8] He sees consciousness not as an external construct that interacts with the body and brain, but a self-aware state of the physical brain.
But science is in the business of hypothesis and rigorous testing to discern the true nature of existence. And, as history has shown, what once seemed liked “spooky action a distance” can ...