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According to theories of embodiment, am I in all my body?
I understand your question as asking: In which sense is it meaningfull to say “I am in my body?”
Expressed in modern terms the question asks about the content and
the limits of the human self-model. ...
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Critique of those missing the Hard Problem?
For monists and panpsychists, there is no division between matter and consciousness. Therefore, there is no hard problem. The fundamental stuff of the universe is matter-consciousness. Consciousness ...
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How Can Computation Cause Consciousness?
I understand that your main question is around the issue of how and why consciousness exists. This is an unsolved problem by science, formulated in modern terms as the hard problem of consciousness.
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How Can Computation Cause Consciousness?
There is nothing special about computability . Capacity to compute , in mind and in machine , arises , changes , and vanishes.
Capacity to compute arises in a baby , who has no understanding or very ...
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How Can Computation Cause Consciousness?
A point of weakness in your position is the assumption that your awareness influences whatever processes happen in your brain. To take a random example- while driving, you might see a traffic jam ...
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How Can Computation Cause Consciousness?
Philosophical writers on theories of the mind fall into two categories, reductionist and non-reductionists. Neither camp could yet present definitive proof or a definitive way to disprove the other.
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How Can Computation Cause Consciousness?
My first reason for being skeptical of this view is that it seems to me to be at odds with the idea that mental events can have a causal influence on the physical world.
After all, the operation of a ...
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