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Locating Consciousness.
Title:
Locating Consciousness.
Author:
Hardcastle, Valerie Gray.
ISBN:
9789027284914
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Series:
Advances in Consciousness Research ; v.4

Advances in Consciousness Research
Contents:
LOCATING CONSCIOUSNESS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Naturalism about Subjective Experience Chapter One -- 1.1. What the Mind Is Not -- 1.2. The Naturalists Versus the Skeptics -- The Limits of Theory Chapter Two -- 2.1. Theory and Observation -- 2.2. Inverted Spectra -- Consciousness as a Natural Kind Chapter Three -- 3.1. Explanations and Causal Histories -- 3.2. Qualia as Explananda -- 3.3. Promissory Notes -- A Multiple Memory System Framework Chapter Four -- 4.1. Converging Evidence for Two Independent Memory Systems -- 4.1.1. Neurobiological Evidence for Two Memory Systems -- 4.1.2 Infants, Amnesics, and the Dual Memory System Hypothesis -- 4.1.3. Characterizing the Two Memory Systems -- 4.2. Priming -- 4.2.1. Word Completion and Perceptual Identification Tasks -- 4.2.2. Properties of Explicit Memory -- 4.3. Tripartite Memory -- Conscious Perception and Semantic Memory Chapter Five -- 5.1. Perception and Memory -- 5.2 The Case of SB -- 5.3. The Consciousness of Others -- 5.3.1. The Location of Consciousness -- 5.3.2. Infant and Amnesic Consciousness -- 5.3.3. Animal Consciousness -- How Do We Get There From Here?Chapter Six -- 6.1. Marr's Paradox -- 6.2. A Brief and Potted History -- 6.3. Psychology's Binding Problem -- 6.4. The Problem of Perception in Neuroscience -- 6.4.1. The Addition of Time -- 6.4.2. One Possible Neurobiological ''Solution" -- 6.4.3. Problems with Neuroscience's ''Solution" -- 6.5. A Different Approach -- 6.5.1. Bifurcating Dynamical Systems -- 6.5.2. Binding Solutions Revisited -- 6.6. Consciousness as System-Dynamic Oscillations -- Martian Pain and the Problem of Absent Qualia Chapter Seven -- 7.1 Supervenience and Absent Qualia -- 7.2 An Argument Against Absent Qualia -- 7.2.1. The Parochial Assignment of Meaning.

7.2.2. A Scientific Assignment of Meaning -- 7.3. Epiphenomenalism Again -- 7.4. A "Maximally Good" Cognitive Definition -- "Executive" Processing and Consciousness as Structure Chapter Eight -- 8.1. An Outline of the "Executive" Theories -- 8.2 The Neurophysiological Evidence -- 8.2.1. The Frontal Lobe as an Executive Processor -- 8.2.2. The Relationship Between Consciousness and U -- 8.2.3. Consciousness as a Global Broadcaster -- 8.2.4. Difficulties With Higher Level Theories of Consciousness -- 8.3 Consciousness as a Decomposition -- The Moment of Consciousness Chapter Nine -- 9.1. The Problem with Psychological Techniques -- 9.2. ERPs, Priming, and Temporal Windows -- 9.2.1. Unmasked Semantic Priming -- 9.2.2. Masked Priming -- 9.2.3. Priming with Novel Visual Stimuli -- 9.3. Conclusion: Mind as Brain -- NOTES -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Locating Consciousness argues that our qualitative experiences should be aligned with the activity of a single and distinct memory system in our mind/brain. Spelling out in detail what we do and do not know about phenomenological experience, this book denies the common view of consciousness as a central decision-making system. Instead, consciousness is viewed as a lower level dynamical structure underpinning our information processing. This new perspective affords novel solutions to a wide range of problems: the absent qualia, the binding problem, the inverted spectra, the specter of epiphenomenalism, the explanatory gap, the distinction between objective and subjective, and the general skeptical doubts about the viability of the naturalist project itself. Drawing on recent data in psychology and neuroscience, Locating Consciousness also discusses when we become conscious and when we should think other animals are conscious. (Series A).
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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