Sökning: "phenomenal consciousness"

Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden phenomenal consciousness.

  1. 1. The felt miracle of phenomenal consciousness

    Författare :Filip Radovic; Teoretisk filosofi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophical logic; subjectivity; qualia; physicalism; phenomenal; objectivity; explanatory gap; dualism; Cognitive illusion; consciousness; Teoretisk filosofi; logik; Phenomenology; Fenomenologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the problem of how sensory qualities relate to neural states or processes. I shall try to present an account of why dualism appears to be an attractive and intuitive position, but also point out why dualistic intuitions may be misleading. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Electrophysiological correlates of consciousness

    Författare :Rasmus Eklund; Stefan Wiens; Mats Nilsson; Antti Revonsuo; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; neural correlates of consciousness; electroencephalography; event-related potentials; visual awareness negativity; auditory awareness negativity; recurrent processing; phenomenal consciousness; access consciousness; Psychology; psykologi;

    Sammanfattning : How does the brain enable us to experience seeing or hearing a stimulus? If a stimulus is repeatedly presented at the awareness threshold, subjects will report that they are aware of the stimulus on half of the presentations. Electroencephalography (EEG) can be used to non-invasively record neural activity as event-related potentials (ERPs). LÄS MER

  4. 3. It's All in the Brain : A Theory of the Qualities of Perception

    Författare :Jesper Östman; Pär Sundström; Howard Robinson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy of perception; philosophy of consciousness; hallucination; phenomenal qualities; qualia; sense data; physicalism; Russell; disjunctivism; representationalism; brain theory; color; the brain; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation concerns the location and nature of phenomenal qualities. Arguably, these qualities naively seem to belong to perceived external objects. However, we also seem to experience phenomenal qualities in hallucinations, and in hallucinations we do not perceive any external objects. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Experience without self : Phenomenology and neural correlates of selflessness

    Författare :Lena Lindström; Institutionen för psykologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sense of self; self-consciousness; self-transcendence; neurophenomenology; self-boundaries; perspectival ownership of experience; DMN; fMRI; sense of self; self-consciousness; self-transcendence; neurophenomenology; self-boundaries; perspectival ownership of experience; DMN; fMRI;

    Sammanfattning : The present dissertation project concerns the relationship between self and consciousness. Specifically, it concerns the phenomenal sense of self and if this is a necessary component of all experience or not. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Planning Primates - A search for episodic foresight

    Författare :Mathias Osvath; Kognitionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; language evolution; planning; the Bischof-Köhler hypothesis; comparative episodic foresight; episodic system; autonoetic consciousness; orangutans; chimpanzees;

    Sammanfattning : The ability to plan for future, not currently experienced, mental or physiological states has been regarded as unique to humans. When humans plan for such states it has been hypothesized that they make use of what has been known as episodic foresight. LÄS MER