• In his paper "If Materialism is True, the United States is Probably Conscious," philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel argues that the United States experiences a consciousness that overrides individual citizens. (wikipedia.org)
  • Schwitzgebel posits that through using materialist philosophy, it may be argued that the United States has the characteristics also present in what materialists consider to be "conscious beings. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, philosophers like Christian List also posit that group agents are not necessarily phenomenally conscious. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conscious experience is often said to be phenomenally unified, and subjects of consciousness are often self-conscious. (umass.edu)
  • And is it necessarily the case that subjects of consciousness are self-conscious whenever they are conscious? (umass.edu)
  • In this and the next two chapters I defend the thesis that, necessarily, for any subject (of conscious mental states) at any time, all of that subject's conscious mental states (at that time) are part of a single, maximal state of consciousness. (umass.edu)
  • In informal terms, a maximal state of consciousness is a sum of conscious states that are i) simultaneous, ii) have the same subject, and iii) all have a conjoint phenomenology. (umass.edu)
  • Rosenthal has offered a theory of conscious unity as an extension of his higher-order theory of consciousness. (umass.edu)
  • When neuroscientists have previously studied consciousness, they've typically assumed this preexisting, conscious, self-aware I as a starting point, and accepted that the challenge for science is to explain how something lumpy and biological like a brain can produce our first person experiences. (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
  • Rather than explain how the physical brain somehow manifests the aura of conscious experience, the question becomes: why are we systematically misled, by our own brain, into thinking that consciousness has nonphysical, experiential, properties that mere physical objects don't have? (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
  • But Rethinking Consciousness puts forward the case that conscious awareness certainly is real , albeit some of its apparently magical properties are unreal and are artefacts of how the brain represents our own and others' attention. (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
  • This family of theories posits a fundamental role for cognitive states, higher-order thought-like intentional states, in the explanation of conscious experience. (frontiersin.org)
  • Block argues, largely on the basis on informal reports by subjects, that the best way to explain these findings is by positing a richly detailed phenomenally conscious experience of all of the shapes, rather than a sparsely detailed conscious experience corresponding to what is represented in working memory. (frontiersin.org)
  • So at this point there may or may not be phenomenal consciousness that overflows working memory, but whatever the conscious experience of subjects in these experiments turns out to be we can explain it on the higher-order thought theory. (frontiersin.org)
  • If consciousness is epiphenomenal, then it plays no part in the actual causal explanation of why we believe ourselves to be conscious beings. (philosophyetc.net)
  • Recognizing that dreams in general are an expression of consciousness during sleep, the critical feature of Baars s GW model we used was his formulation that conscious processes are molded and framed by unconscious processes. (lucidity.com)
  • The canonical view of how general anesthetics induce loss-of-consciousness (LOC) permitting pain-free surgery posits that anesthetic molecules, distributed throughout the CNS, suppress neural activity globally to levels at which the cerebral cortex can no longer sustain conscious experience. (researchgate.net)
  • Theories of consciousness can be separated into those that see it as cognitive in nature, or as an aspect of cognitive functioning, and those that see consciousness as importantly distinct from any kind of cognitive functioning. (frontiersin.org)
  • Early theories on what our consciousness is and how it has been created tended toward the supernatural, suggesting that humans and probably other animals possess an immaterial soul that confers consciousness, thought and free will-capabilities that inanimate objects lack. (scienceandnonduality.com)
  • Sociocultural theories posited that somatization occurs when direct expression of emotions is impermissible. (medscape.com)
  • The basic argument is that, overall, the balance of evidence favors the identification of phenomenal consciousness with first-order non-cognitive states rather than our cognitive access to those states. (frontiersin.org)
  • The higher-order thought theory can allow that our phenomenal consciousness (that is, the contents of the relevant higher-order thoughts) overflows working memory. (frontiersin.org)
  • What it cannot allow is that there is phenomenal consciousness in the absence of suitable higher-order thoughts instantiating a kind of cognitive access to the first-order states. (frontiersin.org)
  • At least if our beliefs about the external world are true there is a natural story about how we came to have such beliefs and that story involves the external world, while if epiphenomenalism is true we still have no natural story about how we came to have beliefs about phenomenal consciousness, that [the story] involves phenomenal consciousness. (philosophyetc.net)
  • These regions fall within the posterior cortical "hot zone," posited to mediate the qualitative aspects of experience. (iasp-pain.org)
  • The Unity Thesis is formulated using the notion of a maximal state of consciousness. (umass.edu)
  • In the rest of chapter two, I consider and argue against a number of different ways of interpreting the split-brain data that are either inconsistent with the Unity Thesis or attribute more than one subject of consciousness to split-brain subjects. (umass.edu)
  • Second of the two starting points, though related to the first, is what the thesis refers to as the 'Kantian axiom' which argues that time shapes consciousness. (bl.uk)
  • Extending this, the thesis posits that, filling in the lacuna created by the shortcomings of the subsumptive theory of judgment, adjudication's temporality shapes its factual construction. (bl.uk)
  • he argues that there is an important distinction that must be made between consciousness as awareness and as experience. (wikipedia.org)
  • Interestingly, this play of presence and absence is something which poems have in common with visual images, rather than something which distinguishes them, according to W. J. T. Mitchell, who argues that "an image cannot be seen as such without a paradoxical trick of consciousness, an ability to see something as 'there' and 'not there' at the same time" (17). (erudit.org)
  • But the self, Sartre argues, is not "in" consciousness, much less identical to it. (mythosandlogos.com)
  • In The Transcendence of the Ego Sartre also reconsiders the notion of the self, which Husserl (and so many earlier philosophers) had identified with consciousness. (mythosandlogos.com)
  • The mesopontine tegmental anesthesia area (MPTA) was identified in rats as a singular brainstem locus at which microinjection of minute quantities of GABAergic agents rapidly and reversibly induces loss-of-consciousness and a state of general anesthesia, while lesioning renders animals insensitive to anesthetics at normal systemic doses. (researchgate.net)
  • General anesthetic agents are thought to induce loss-of-consciousness (LOC) and enable pain-free surgery by acting on the endogenous brain circuitry responsible for sleep-wake cycling. (researchgate.net)
  • As exposure increases so do the health effects, with a potential for suffocation, loss of consciousness, coma, and sudden death. (cdc.gov)
  • Among the views I consider are Lockwood's partial-unity view and the views, by theorists such as Sperry, Koch, Puccetti, Marks, and Tye, that split-brain subjects have two non-overlapping streams of consciousness. (umass.edu)
  • In chapter three, I consider a recent attempt by Bayne to account for the split-brain data in a way that does not attribute two streams of consciousness to them. (umass.edu)
  • In sections §3-§6 of the main document the focus was largely on the character and composition of individual specious presents, as variously construed by different forms of realism, and the manner in which these combine to form streams of consciousness. (stanford.edu)
  • Group consciousness requires unity through the group's belief in a set of "ideological beliefs about one's group's social standing. (wikipedia.org)
  • Rosenthal is perhaps best known for his higher-order thought theory of consciousness, but he has also expanded his theory to account for the unity of consciousness. (umaine.edu)
  • However, group consciousness often stems from the existence of group agents. (wikipedia.org)
  • This theory posits that our soul rises through multiple dimensions or planes of existence after death, gradually integrating with higher consciousness levels. (findingdulcinea.com)
  • Its structure is unabashedly Cartesian, consciousness ("being-for-itself") on the one side, the existence of mere things ('being-in-itself") on the other. (mythosandlogos.com)
  • This separation of self and consciousness and the rejection of the self as simply self-consciousness provide the framework for Sartre's greatest philosophical treatise, Being and Nothingness (1943). (mythosandlogos.com)
  • Unlike the style of psychological realism, which dominates film, the transcendental style expresses a spiritual state by means of austere camerawork, acting devoid of self-consciousness, and editing that avoids editorial comment. (ucpress.edu)
  • The volume's aim is to revisit "hypotheses, concepts and distinctions introduced in Consciousness and Content from an updated interdisciplinary standpoint," (1). (nd.edu)
  • So, when scientists try to explore "consciousness," they are routinely accused of trespassing by those in the humanities or spiritual traditions. (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
  • Most scientists today have discarded this view, known as dualism, to embrace a 'monistic' view of a consciousness generated by the brain itself and its network of billions of nerves. (scienceandnonduality.com)
  • Many scientists posit that consciousness resides in the material brain, but Drasin explores the afterlife in what is now emerging, in some branches of science, as post-materialism. (newdimensions.org)
  • For these early media artists, the feedback loops, live circuits, and video flows, coupled with the electronic image's immediate and physiological stimulations, when used in distinction to commercial models, posited potent possibilities for cybernetic consciousness, ecological human-machine systems, and an end to top-down power relations. (rhizome.org)
  • Group consciousness in political science refers to the phenomenon in which members within a social identity group become aware of how their group identification impacts their position in society, and therefore come together to pursue collective action to advocate for their shared interests. (wikipedia.org)
  • I then consider two unorthodox views that the Consensus View does not take off the table: the views that a "collective consciousness" and a "spread consciousness" are possible. (umass.edu)
  • A collective subject is one that can enjoy the experiences of an indeterminate number of "lesser" subjects of consciousness by sharing them together with those subjects. (umass.edu)
  • Proponents posit that humans often access memories from prior lives as well as from the Collective consciousness through this process. (crystalinks.com)
  • I believe this mystery has now been solved, and that consciousness is the experience of nerves plugging into the brain's self-generated electromagnetic field to drive what we call 'free will' and our voluntary actions. (scienceandnonduality.com)
  • Torah recognizes the role of human consciousness as an active, rather than passive, participant in forming reality. (chabad.org)
  • Multiverse based mirror symmetric consciousness (entanglement) is assumed to be the base for all particle- wave -and human guidance or wavefunction collapse. (profmattstrassler.com)
  • Tip of the Hat to Reality Sandwich for this offering, and to Evolver Editions (North Atlantic/Random House) for their new Manifesto series in support of human consciousness and planetary synthesis. (phibetaiota.net)
  • To mark the recent passing of José Argüelles, we offer an excerpt from his upcoming book Manifesto for the Noosphere: The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness , available from Evolver Editions/North Atlantic Books in October 2011. (phibetaiota.net)
  • : Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Expression (1975), where I link the two principles governing the history of human consciousness - psyche and techne - to the two sides of the human and planetary brain. (phibetaiota.net)
  • If a concept of consciousness is conceived as following from a layering of human perception, cognition, and physiological experience, then the brain may be understood as having the potential to produce quantum states - indeed the complexity of such brain states may make the experience of consciousness possible. (umaine.edu)
  • To be sure, as a student of Hegel , Marx , Husserl and Heidegger --and because of his own physical frailty and the tragedies of the war--Sartre had to be well aware of the many constraints and obstances to human freedom, but as a Cartesian, he never deviated from Descartes' classical portrait of human consciousness as free and distinct from the physical universe it inhabits. (mythosandlogos.com)
  • I am fascinated by recent studies of the brain that support Graves' idea that the evolution and growth of the human brain affects our level of consciousness. (cac.org)
  • Here we explore demonstrated scientific findings of the continuity of human consciousness beyond the physical body. (newdimensions.org)
  • One key point of contention within the philosophy is whether or not the "consciousness" of a group can be phenomenal, meaning experiential, or if it is purely a sense of awareness. (wikipedia.org)
  • Graziano's theory posits that awareness is actually a kind of crude model, or schema, of attention. (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
  • One version of the former kind of theory is the higher-order-thought theory of consciousness. (frontiersin.org)
  • If this is the case then the higher-order theory will account for this by positing correspondingly fragmented, generic, or partial contents of the relevant higher-order states. (frontiersin.org)
  • It begins by dividing the problem into giving a theory of mental content and a theory of consciousness. (nd.edu)
  • On the one hand he wants to avoid positing that mental items are brain events, as the identity theory or functionalism does. (nd.edu)
  • Dennett's theory of mental content blossomed into his account of the intentional stance and perhaps culminates in his paper "Real Patterns" while his theory of consciousness blooms into his Multiple Drafts, or fame in the brain, theory and is forcefully argued for in Consciousness Explained . (nd.edu)
  • Electromagnetic energy in the brain enables brain matter to create our consciousness and our ability to be aware and think, according to a new theory developed by Professor Johnjoe McFadden from the University of Surrey. (scienceandnonduality.com)
  • Publishing his theory in the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness , Professor McFadden posits that consciousness is in fact the brain's energy field. (scienceandnonduality.com)
  • Integrating information in the brain's EM field: the cemi field theory of consciousness, Neuroscience of Consciousness (2020). (scienceandnonduality.com)
  • However, as usual, the Greeks posited creative power in their gods and forgot that they, the humans, were artists of alternative worlds. (wariscrime.com)
  • Once the hypothesis of the unconscious is accepted, then it follows that all our knowledge must be incomplete since the repository of knowledge, the psyche, is only partially accessible to consciousness. (iaap.org)
  • In Content and Consciousness Dennett sets out a framework for thinking about the relation of the mind to the brain that he is continuing to develop to this day. (nd.edu)
  • Our basis for answering this question involved a systematic comparison of waking, lucid and nonlucid dreaming within the framework of the Global Workspace (GW) model of consciousness developed by Bernard Baars (1988). (lucidity.com)
  • We begin by showing that lucidity in dreams is not a discrete phenomenon, but that reflective consciousness exists in all dreams and can be measured on a continuum with "lucidity" and "non-lucidity" representing two ends of the spectrum. (lucidity.com)
  • The meaning of the being of the existent in so far as it reveals itself to consciousness is the phenomenon of being. (mythosandlogos.com)
  • Feminist consciousness is defined as "politicized gender identification," which is when women link their gender identity and the societal issues that arise alongside it with a set of political beliefs. (wikipedia.org)
  • By the end of the 19th century, Myers and Janet developed psychological frameworks for understanding "psychological automatisms," which emphasized the coexistence of separate mental systems that would normally be integrated into person's consciousness, identity, and physical self. (medscape.com)
  • Chapter one, the introduction by Carlos Muñoz-Suárez, explores themes in Content and Consciousness . (nd.edu)
  • While Wilber takes a developmental and hierarchical approach to the evolution of both individuals and societies, Gebser advances a more heterarchical model of integral, viewing both different modes of consciousness and societies through an egalitarian and communal lens. (integralworld.net)
  • A spread subject is one that can enjoy the experiences of an indeterminate number of lesser subjects of consciousness, but it does so, not by sharing those experiences with the lesser subjects, but by absorbing the lesser subjects of experience into itself, thereby erasing the traditional boundaries between the entities we intuitively think of as subjects of experience. (umass.edu)
  • Given the comrades' own experience of the vicious resilience of the military in propping up the status quo in Nigeria, this seems more than a little naive, particularly as the book's only suggestions as to strategy in this regard are for a "long term program of class consciousness building, relevant education and increased individual participation in social struggles. (libcom.org)
  • For example, if the light or sound emitted by a perceived event is scrambled, compressed or stretched en route to the perceiver, the duration of T (and even the temporal ordering of its parts) will be affected, and the resulting experience will probably misrepresent the temporal properties of the perceived event to a significant degree. (stanford.edu)
  • They all posit an "end" toward which history is inexorably being drawn. (julianjaynes.org)
  • In the context of group consciousness, this refers to the controversial debate over whether a group can function as its own being, or if group consciousness is primarily a metaphor. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to Bayne's Switch Model, the consciousness of split-brain subjects can be likened to that of a ball that is passed back and forth between the two hemispheres of the upper-brain. (umass.edu)
  • Content and Consciousness Revisited is the seventh in Springer's Studies in Brain and Mind series and has 10 chapters plus a foreword and a response to each chapter by Dennett. (nd.edu)
  • Color blindness is a racial ideology with roots in constitutional law that posits that equality is best achieved by disregarding the racial and ethnic characteristics of the individual. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this dissertation, I examine the nature and structure of consciousness. (umass.edu)
  • In Transcendence of the Ego (1937) he reconsidered Husserl's central idea of a "phenomenological reduction" (the idea of examining the essential structures of consciousness as such) and argued (following Heidegger ) that one cannot examine consciousness without at the same time recognizing the reality of actual objects in the world. (mythosandlogos.com)
  • However, if dreaming is consciously recollected it must be that memory is also active at the time of dreaming, and if this is so, then the use of memory from dreaming must be associated with consciousness in the waking state. (umaine.edu)
  • I argue that, although both mechanisms may serve to unify consciousness in certain ways or to some degree, they are not sufficient to account for all of the different ways in which consciousness is unified. (umaine.edu)
  • Researchers have therefore connected this idea of "linked fate," meaning the viewpoint that one's fate is "inextricably linked to the fate of their racial group" to a heightened sense of group consciousness. (wikipedia.org)
  • there's nothing in the zombie's mind for his alleged concept of 'consciousness' to latch on to, for example. (philosophyetc.net)
  • Onstage Saturday night at Underground Arts, the tall, Connecticut-raised Moore (who turns 59 on Tuesday) flexed the concept/ appellation even further when introducing his rather phenomenal trans-Atlantic quartet (together since 2014, over two albums now): "This band is Rock n Roll Consciousness. (phawker.com)
  • It is an evolutionary concept posited by studies in both biogeochemistry and paleontology. (phibetaiota.net)
  • But it is with the notion of the Earth and its hemispheres - Eastern and Western as well as Northern and Southern - that The Transformative Vision builds on the idea of a higher unifying principle of planetary consciousness governing the progression of history and the world ages in general. (phibetaiota.net)
  • His account posits two distinguishable mental mechanisms. (umaine.edu)
  • The only way out that I can see is for the epiphenomenalist to adopt the strong position that consciousness grounds all genuine intentionality, so that zombies can't have any real concepts, beliefs, or mean anything at all. (philosophyetc.net)
  • Consciousness explains why we have the beliefs we do, because without it, we wouldn't have any genuine beliefs at all. (philosophyetc.net)
  • Color consciousness, in contrast, approaches disparities with the knowledge that experiences related to one's race and ethnicity influence an individual's health and well-being. (bvsalud.org)
  • interpretivism posits that knowledge of social reality is gained through social constructions like meanings (Orlikowski & Baroudi, 1991). (cdc.gov)
  • But can Rock n Roll be deemed a Consciousness, as Thurston Moore posits with the title of his latest solo album? (phawker.com)
  • Overall I enjoyed reading the book (and re-reading Consciousness and Content while I awaited the book) and I learned a lot from the various exchanges. (nd.edu)
  • The First Whole Earth Festival roused the interest of planetary philosopher and astrologer Dane Rudhyar , whose book The Planetarization of Consciousness (1970) had just been published. (phibetaiota.net)
  • Based on research regarding women's rights activism, personality and life experiences can be seen as factors that lead to feminist consciousness. (wikipedia.org)
  • Originally published in 1969, Content and Consciousness is the product of Daniel Dennett's DPhil at Oxford with Gilbert Ryle. (nd.edu)
  • These later works all develop, elaborate, and clarify the ideas and arguments first laid out in Content and Consciousness . (nd.edu)
  • Instead, McFadden proposes that the brain's information-rich electromagnetic field is in fact itself the seat of consciousness, driving 'free will' and voluntary actions. (scienceandnonduality.com)
  • Discussion of Julian Jaynes's first hypothesis - that consciousness (as he carefully defines it) is based on language, and related topics. (julianjaynes.org)
  • This seminal text analyzes the film style of three great directors-Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, and Carl Dreyer-and posits a common dramatic language used by these artists from divergent cultures. (ucpress.edu)